I've heard from a reliable source that the pope's personal staff calls Pope Benedict XVI, "B16." As in, "No, B16 won't be available to write a forward."
What I could never figure out is why the last pope got to ride behind bulletproof glass. Sure, he got popped once, but isn't god supposed to protect you or something? And now this one gets to wear what appear to be comfortable shoes?
Also, Lazarus may have been resurrected, but he's dead again now, ain't he? So what was the point?
@kneetoe: Mr. P always comments on that, too. If what the Church says about the afterlife is true, shouldn't the Pope be looking forward to getting there? The dude is fucked up. I can't decide whether I hate him most as a Jew or as a woman.
@Mama Penguino: Really? You had a problem with PJP2? I can see not liking Benedict as he isn't as warm, but PJP2 was a wonderful example of grace. Didn't always agree with him on a lot of issues (birth control being the most obvious), but he had such dignity with how he handled his physical suffering.
BTW, the promise of Heaven and the afterlife does not mean you rush to go there.
@momof3wildkids: Okay, yes...I did like PJP2, especially after he admitted what a bunch of jackasses the Catholics had been in the early days. But this new guy. Shivers, mom. He makes the tiny hair on the back of my neck stand at attention.
I know that no one's actually going to read the encyclical, because everyone on Gawker is horribly, permanently biased against the Catholic Church, and against Benedict because of whatever young Nazi rumours it's apparently hilarious to spread (it's not, and it's sad).
But it's actually quite a beautiful and pretty brilliant little document. I'm reading it now, and it's powerful stuff. So far, it's a really interesting call to redefine the idea of charity that we all sort of dismiss with a sniff.
I am aware of the ways in which charity has been and continues to be misconstrued and emptied of meaning, with the consequent risk of being misinterpreted, detached from ethical living and, in any event, undervalued. In the social, juridical, cultural, political and economic fields - the contexts, in other words, that are most exposed to this danger - it is easily dismissed as irrelevant for interpreting and giving direction to moral responsibility...
I'm a fan. It's about time that something like this came out, and tried to remind people of their ties to each other. The economic slowdown has made people selfish and miserable.
@Kid Twist: Hey, it's not the church's bag to be political to your liking. They're just being spiritual and allowing it to reflect onto politics as it will.
And it just so happens that spiritually, the idea of taking care of your fellow man and showing him love falls under the idea of socialism.
So it's too bad, but the right wing is going to have to eat this one in the face. Just eat it right in the face.
@Pope John Peeps II: Does it mention anything about selling church property to pay the billions in claims by victims of pedophiles protected by the church? As a baptized and confirmed catholic, I've decided to refrain from donating until this is resolved.
@Pope John Peeps II: Peeps has a point. I am guilty of enjoying more than one not-especially-inventive joke about outsized hats -- but when I think about it, some of my own favorite writers also dress in absurdly formal, stylized ways as a reminder to onlookers of their proximity to superior and unquestionable Authority.
Although in the case of my preferred writers, it's usually just because they're drunk.
@Pope John Peeps II: I'm no Catholic or Pope hater, but 95% of Catholics aren't going to read this either. How many will even know of it's existence? Will it be mentioned in mass?
@Pope John Peeps II: I don't think everyone on Gawker is horribly and permanently biased against the Catholic Church. I think that many people on this site don't always have real self made opinions. It is more of a collective mob mentality where people just jeer and cheer to fit in.
I won't give any examples since I would rather not be virtually lynched.
@Mymoustache: yeah... that was a pretty shitty moment in Church history. But doing bad things in the past doesn't mean that you can't do good things now. And both should be looked at as exactly what they were.
I kind of like Benedict actually. He's smart, and extremely principled about his intellectual choices. He can make harsh and unpopular choices - like this document - it's bound to be extremely unpopular with lots, but it's necessary to say. I'd like to believe he wouldn't have had any truck with saving the careers of pedophiles.
@Pope John Peeps II: Bravo. And yes, part of the Church's teachings is to help others (not enrich yourself because God wants you to as the Prosperity groups tell us).
@Mymoustache: I understand your frustation. There are diocesis that have gond bankrupt and lost lots money during settlements. What those people did was unforgivable. However, that went against Church teaching, no? It's not like the Church says "go on and molest kids". But it does say to help others.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to add this encyclical letter to my reading list.
@Kid Twist: No they're not. But you were the one that brought up the fact that in this case, the translation of charity as it's applied to society at large, of "networks of charity" as Benedict put it, sounds in like socialism. And there's no way around that. In practical terms, this sounds socialist. But that's not the original intent. The original intent is apolitical.
@Pope John Peeps II: Hey, I am an equal opportunity hater of all religion, except the strictly personal one. And if that is of a crazy nature, I dislike it too.
Ratzi was in the Hitler Youth, that can't be disputed and is not a rumour. Membership was mandatory at the time, that also can't be disputed. That does not tell us if he liked it or not.
Nobody ever said the church is democratic, not even Baby Jesus. The church most definitely was never meant to be capitalist. So, well done, Pope. (I am also not of the oppinion that ethical bussiness behavior is somehow incompatible with capitalism. It's kind of sad that pro-capitalist people exist who believe this.)
And just to rile the pope:
"I am amazed at this old man. Has he not heard that god is dead?"
"The Church does not have technical solutions to offer[10] and does not claim "to interfere in any way in the politics of States."[11] She does, however, have a mission of truth to accomplish, in every time and circumstance, for a society that is attuned to man, to his dignity, to his vocation. "
@transbastard: Man, it's stupid to say though. EVERYONE in Germany was in the young Nazi party. You pretty much had to be to really fit in society. It's hard to blame someone individually for taking an act when they were young just to fit in. It's not like he was an SS guard at Auschwitz.
And Nietzsche never gets old. But you should keep reading. God acted as our moral horizon, but once we realize we don't need him, it becomes up to us to recreate that moral horizon. In other words - we would sort of create a new God. But one of our choosing.
@Pope John Peeps II: "because everyone on Gawker is horribly, permanently biased against the Catholic Church, and against Benedict because of whatever young Nazi rumours it's apparently hilarious to spread"
Yes, he was forced to join the Hitler Youth because it was compulsory. All six years of his life after that as a bona fide member of the Nazi party, as an assembler in a arms factory and a Nazi infantry solider is a complete lie perpetuated by evil secularists.
I'm not biased against Catholics. I am biased against people who preach stupid abstinence programs in AIDS ravaged Africa. Also: since most Catholics are black or Hispanic, would it hurt the Vatican to consider a Holy See from the part of the world where most Catholics originate, or shall we continue this colonial Great White Daddy mentality in "His" efforts to tame the world's swarthy noble savages?
@Kid Twist: I actually live in a democracy that has touches of socialism, like universal healthcare. It's not bad.
What is it about (some) Americans that whenever the subject of socialism comes up, they react as though you've just suggested cannibalism or incest?
@Pope John Peeps II: I'd like to believe he wouldn't have had any truck with saving the careers of pedophiles. Seriously? He wasn't exactly a file clerk before he became pope. I have a hard time believing he wasn't complicit in that whole sad affair.
@gawkimo: Well even then what are you going to do? He had a life prior to this one. He made some choices. Do you stand by every single thing you did when you were young? The ENTIRE COUNTRY of GERMANY was culpable in this. They were all part of this movement, so how do you single out individual people and say "you should have gone against the whole country". Is it reasonable to expect this? Would any human being possibly do this?
And you ARE biased against Catholics. At least against the Church. You don't seem to understand the fundamental part of the Catholic Church that is rooted in tradition and spirituality- they don't necessarily make decisions based on what's politically practical. Until the spiritual notion of birth control is challenged, the Church simply will not advocate condoms. Spiritual concerns should come before political ones in the life of a church.
Like moving the Holy See. Are you SERIOUS? I haven't been a practicing Catholic for almost eight years and that seriously gets my back up. You're going to move the Holy See from the greatest, most impenetrably beautiful structure and city on earth to where... Johannesburg? Buenos Aires? That's just ridiculous. And why? Just so they can appear to be less "colonial" in your eyes? They don't need your approval.
@gawkimo: I'm sympathetic to the logic of your criticisms, but can we acknowledge together that Peeps doesn't have to answer for every single aspect of church doctrine and teachings?
@Pope John Peeps II: Pope John Paul II worked in a quarry rather than "fitting in" with the Nazis. If you want to claim that Benedict is truly holy, and should be listened to as such, you may want to come up with a stronger argument than "he had to in order to fit in." I expect a leader to be stronger than that.
@gawkimo: Ummm he was not a member of the Nazi "party." In fact, his father was vehemently anti-Nazi. He was forced to join the Hitler Youth, drafted into the an anti-aircraft unit guarding a BMW plant outside of Munich, then deserted, and later became a POW. 3 years total between Hitler Youth and army.
In WWII Germany, most Germans/Prussians/etc.. didn't even hear rumors of what was happening in the supposed "prisoner" work camps until close to the end of the war. They saw it as a political war between Russia and Germany and when the allies became involved it left many confused and unsure as to what was actually going on. People seem to have this opinion that 99% of Germany knew that Hitler was killing Jews, Poles, Gays, Catholics, Gypsies, etc...and accepted and supported it. Ridic.
How about you get on a dangerous soapbox like railing agains minbuses offering USG to determine the sex of a foetus and performing abortions if they look like girls (as in China and India)?
@CherriSpryte: He was 14. Deserted by the time he was 17. Deserting an army knowing under penalty of death and joining the seminary is pretty brave in my opinion.
@Pope John Peeps II: The Catholic Church is one of countless institutions that seeks to socialize and repress the innate, amoral selfishness out of young children. That is the basic purpose of religion, without question The Golden Rule is really a much older artifact, dressed up in the splendor of one or another alleged heyday of early white people.
There are many, many other institutions set to the same aim, and many that are more effective and that have more integrity at it than the Catholic Church. Catholicism, generally speaking, is an incoherent mish-mash of ancient mythology, literalist dogma, social pecking orders, and public treasury. How anyone could hitch their wagon to this unimpressive flotsam of human history is shocking to me. How so many millions can do the same every day is disheartening in the same manner as phenomena like Britney Spears or Kanye West or Dr. Phil.
No matter how well argued any particular papal document may be, it is still the product of a hopelessly misguided context. Like New Jersey or Microsoft Windows, Catholicism is something that is so deeply tarnished as to be best razed rather than reformed.
To take it one step further: any religion that worships anything other than a fool, is a religion FOR the fool.
@Pope John Peeps II: "ell even then what are you going to do? He had a life prior to this one. He made some choices. Do you stand by every single thing you did when you were young? The ENTIRE COUNTRY of GERMANY"
He's the POPE, man! We're not talking about the the old German guy who owns the deli down the street. The Pope should have a history of noble selflessness not moral ambiguity, especially if he's not going to be morally ambiguous about a serious health threat in Africa.
Also, my apologies for the misue of the term Holy See -- I thought it also referred to the body of the Pope, or something. What I mean is that it's long overdue for a Pope that FROM the part of the world where most Catholics are originating.
Also regarding my bias against Abrahamics: being enough Native American to qualify for a free pencil form the BIA, Christianity in general is as much a vessel of intolerance and murder as it is morality and goodness. I'm not going to romanticize pre-Columbian theology in North America, but let's just say that the Catholics and the Protestants were MURDEROUS LAND-GRABBING THUGS. So excuse me if I carry this forward to the present: where gunning down and enslaving infidels,heathens and Jews has been replaced with kinder, gentler form of intolerance, which is killing people.
Oh, and tell those closeted gay priests to stop molesting altar boys, OK? And when they get caught, DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT besides covering it up, defending the priests and bribing the victims with tax-free money.
@skahammer: Of course not. Some of my closest, dearest friends are Mexican Catholics. I dated a Catholic for years (a Godless one, but her mom . . . oh boy). Catholicism is my favorite of the wrong beliefs people can have, mainly because it gave the world Mexican kitsch.
@the_lerpa: And as I said, I expect more from the ideal Pope. We're not talking about some random old German. Also: I find it difficult to believe that for six years he never had a chance to, well, leave, go into exile, spend time in prison, etc. These are the qualities of potential martyrdom that the Catholic church itself extols. Jesus (the mythical white hippie-looking one everyone believes in today) didn't follow orders.
@Seriena: This really has much less to do with whether he was a genuine Nazi or just joining the war effort without any knowledge of the tyranny of Hitler's Germany. It has a lot more to do with what it represents to pick on old white German former Nazi. Sorry, but if you work in an arms plant in Germany in WWII and then move on to infantry: you're a Nazi, being a member of any war machine like does not really underscore the basic ideals of Christianity, does it? Especially if you're going to be THE POPE.
@Seriena: Also, by 1945 every knew what was going on. Was he not a member of Nazi infantry until he was a POW in 1945? Sorry, but I find that hard to believe. It's much easier to believe that he was a different person then than he is today. But, again, I think if being in the Third Reich would make it hard for you to be PM of Germany today, it should probably be a deal breaker for being the Pope.
@Spy from the Land of Rainpeople: Abstinence only programs are dangerous in Africa. (African men generally do not want to wear condoms, being the enabler of an anti-safe sex policy in the name of God is E V I L.) But for what it's worth I could stand on that fetus-sexing soap box, too, if you want me to. :)
@Seriena: As I understand it, he was captured by the Americans in 1945 and was a POW and THEN joined the seminary. Or am I wrong? To be honest: I'd rather be wrong than thing somebody out there is making that shit up to cover up the truth. That's creepy DaVinci Code shit, man!
I actually attended a Bircher meeting shortly after the Branch Davidian mess. Not out of idealism, rather a local AM radio talk host was a big supporter and I figured it had to be good for a laugh. It turned out to be the same boring stuff - Federal Reserve, the UN, BATF, etc. The only entertaining part of the rather dry lecture was the opening invocation given by a Reverend in attendance.
"Dear Lord", he began in his calm ministerial tone, "we beg you to lift the scales from the eyes of those who serve as our public officials. Let them awaken to the evil influences around us and further serve Your will." This elicited a few quiet expressions of agreement from the respectful audience.
"And if they refuse to see then SMITE THEM, LORD! CAST THEM INTO THE FIERY PIT, FOR THEY ARE THE ENEMY OF YOUR PEOPLE AND SERPENTS IN YOUR LAND!", he concluded, his beet-red face scrunched up in spiritual intensity. The crowd erupted in rousing applause and hoots, with many shouts of "AMEN!"
First of all, it's zombies that we should be worrying about. Secondly, even if the U.S. were to depart the U.N., we would need to keep the U.N.'s headquarters in the U.S. so that we can easily eavesdrop on members' communications, recruit counterintelligence resources, and so forth. (Why do you think we campaigned so hard to have its HQ here in the first place?)
These guys had a table at a street fair I went to last summer. It was the only booth that had no one anywhere near it. Not that there might not be a sympathetic audience in Westfield NJ, but who would want to take a chance on their neighbors seeing them cozying up to the lunatic fringe?
@meerkat: Bowcraft Amusements on Route 22 in nearby Scotch Plains was owned by Birchers for like forever. They have always had a nice welcome place among the crypto-racist Big Whites of wealthy suburbia.
On the 99 between Bakersfield and Fresno, a farmer parked an 18-wheeler on his land at the edge of the freeway's shoulder, and painted across it "US out of United Nation's NOW!" in angry red, white and blue. Hard to think the same area gave us Buck Owens and the Buckaroos.
@BadUncle: Those used to be ubiquitous in northeast Texas. You can still find some but they are no longer on the city limit signs with the Chamber of Commerce and Rotary Club seals.
Back in teh 1970s my uncle beat the shit out of a Bircher who called him a "lousy kike." My uncle was arrested and we thought there was going to be a trial, but I think some, er, pressure was put on the beatee to not testify.
@BookishLookish: One of the best pics I've ever seen is in the office of an old jewish solo practitioner with whom I used to share office space. It was a black and white of him in the 60s smacking the crap out of some guy at a neo-nazi rally. I always told him he was really irish!
@Mymoustache: Old civil rights peeps are the jazzy jam. That was more my mom's side; my uncle is on my dad's side and he ran with an Irish gang growing up in the 1950s. Not much marching, more like mean streets, but no tolerance for bigoted nonsense either.
@BookishLookish: Appropos of nothing, BL, I just wanted to let you know that my company's cafeteria (excuse me, cafe) served lemon squares today, and I bought one. Just to mediate some inner conflict. Carry on.
Yes, what a marvelous fucking paradise we live in now thanks to the munificent Old World Order. As I type this on my special diamond-studded velvet keyboard, a sexy blonde angel just scratched my ass with a golden-handled mink brush. Mmm. Also the Old World Order gives the best mani-pedis. With complimentary Ferraris!
And how new can this New World Order be if it goes back 200 years?
@VeeKaChu: Holy crap! That just fired a bunch of long dormant cells in my brain. I remember this song, even growing up in the ultra-conservative Dallas of the '60s.
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I've heard the papal shoes are specially made by Prada.
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But it's actually quite a beautiful and pretty brilliant little document. I'm reading it now, and it's powerful stuff. So far, it's a really interesting call to redefine the idea of charity that we all sort of dismiss with a sniff.
I am aware of the ways in which charity has been and continues to be misconstrued and emptied of meaning, with the consequent risk of being misinterpreted, detached from ethical living and, in any event, undervalued. In the social, juridical, cultural, political and economic fields - the contexts, in other words, that are most exposed to this danger - it is easily dismissed as irrelevant for interpreting and giving direction to moral responsibility...
I'm a fan. It's about time that something like this came out, and tried to remind people of their ties to each other. The economic slowdown has made people selfish and miserable.
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And it just so happens that spiritually, the idea of taking care of your fellow man and showing him love falls under the idea of socialism.
So it's too bad, but the right wing is going to have to eat this one in the face. Just eat it right in the face.
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Like "Hey, peoples of the world, USE CONDOMS. Cool?"
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Although in the case of my preferred writers, it's usually just because they're drunk.
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I won't give any examples since I would rather not be virtually lynched.
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I kind of like Benedict actually. He's smart, and extremely principled about his intellectual choices. He can make harsh and unpopular choices - like this document - it's bound to be extremely unpopular with lots, but it's necessary to say. I'd like to believe he wouldn't have had any truck with saving the careers of pedophiles.
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@Mymoustache: I understand your frustation. There are diocesis that have gond bankrupt and lost lots money during settlements. What those people did was unforgivable. However, that went against Church teaching, no? It's not like the Church says "go on and molest kids". But it does say to help others.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to add this encyclical letter to my reading list.
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Ratzi was in the Hitler Youth, that can't be disputed and is not a rumour. Membership was mandatory at the time, that also can't be disputed. That does not tell us if he liked it or not.
Nobody ever said the church is democratic, not even Baby Jesus. The church most definitely was never meant to be capitalist. So, well done, Pope. (I am also not of the oppinion that ethical bussiness behavior is somehow incompatible with capitalism. It's kind of sad that pro-capitalist people exist who believe this.)
And just to rile the pope:
"I am amazed at this old man. Has he not heard that god is dead?"
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"The Church does not have technical solutions to offer[10] and does not claim "to interfere in any way in the politics of States."[11] She does, however, have a mission of truth to accomplish, in every time and circumstance, for a society that is attuned to man, to his dignity, to his vocation. "
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And Nietzsche never gets old. But you should keep reading. God acted as our moral horizon, but once we realize we don't need him, it becomes up to us to recreate that moral horizon. In other words - we would sort of create a new God. But one of our choosing.
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Yes, he was forced to join the Hitler Youth because it was compulsory. All six years of his life after that as a bona fide member of the Nazi party, as an assembler in a arms factory and a Nazi infantry solider is a complete lie perpetuated by evil secularists.
I'm not biased against Catholics. I am biased against people who preach stupid abstinence programs in AIDS ravaged Africa. Also: since most Catholics are black or Hispanic, would it hurt the Vatican to consider a Holy See from the part of the world where most Catholics originate, or shall we continue this colonial Great White Daddy mentality in "His" efforts to tame the world's swarthy noble savages?
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What is it about (some) Americans that whenever the subject of socialism comes up, they react as though you've just suggested cannibalism or incest?
@Pope John Peeps II: I'd like to believe he wouldn't have had any truck with saving the careers of pedophiles.
Seriously? He wasn't exactly a file clerk before he became pope. I have a hard time believing he wasn't complicit in that whole sad affair.
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And you ARE biased against Catholics. At least against the Church. You don't seem to understand the fundamental part of the Catholic Church that is rooted in tradition and spirituality- they don't necessarily make decisions based on what's politically practical. Until the spiritual notion of birth control is challenged, the Church simply will not advocate condoms. Spiritual concerns should come before political ones in the life of a church.
Like moving the Holy See. Are you SERIOUS? I haven't been a practicing Catholic for almost eight years and that seriously gets my back up. You're going to move the Holy See from the greatest, most impenetrably beautiful structure and city on earth to where... Johannesburg? Buenos Aires? That's just ridiculous. And why? Just so they can appear to be less "colonial" in your eyes? They don't need your approval.
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Unless he feels like it, of course.
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In WWII Germany, most Germans/Prussians/etc.. didn't even hear rumors of what was happening in the supposed "prisoner" work camps until close to the end of the war. They saw it as a political war between Russia and Germany and when the allies became involved it left many confused and unsure as to what was actually going on. People seem to have this opinion that 99% of Germany knew that Hitler was killing Jews, Poles, Gays, Catholics, Gypsies, etc...and accepted and supported it. Ridic.
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How about you get on a dangerous soapbox like railing agains minbuses offering USG to determine the sex of a foetus and performing abortions if they look like girls (as in China and India)?
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There are many, many other institutions set to the same aim, and many that are more effective and that have more integrity at it than the Catholic Church. Catholicism, generally speaking, is an incoherent mish-mash of ancient mythology, literalist dogma, social pecking orders, and public treasury. How anyone could hitch their wagon to this unimpressive flotsam of human history is shocking to me. How so many millions can do the same every day is disheartening in the same manner as phenomena like Britney Spears or Kanye West or Dr. Phil.
No matter how well argued any particular papal document may be, it is still the product of a hopelessly misguided context. Like New Jersey or Microsoft Windows, Catholicism is something that is so deeply tarnished as to be best razed rather than reformed.
To take it one step further: any religion that worships anything other than a fool, is a religion FOR the fool.
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He's the POPE, man! We're not talking about the the old German guy who owns the deli down the street. The Pope should have a history of noble selflessness not moral ambiguity, especially if he's not going to be morally ambiguous about a serious health threat in Africa.
Also, my apologies for the misue of the term Holy See -- I thought it also referred to the body of the Pope, or something. What I mean is that it's long overdue for a Pope that FROM the part of the world where most Catholics are originating.
Also regarding my bias against Abrahamics: being enough Native American to qualify for a free pencil form the BIA, Christianity in general is as much a vessel of intolerance and murder as it is morality and goodness. I'm not going to romanticize pre-Columbian theology in North America, but let's just say that the Catholics and the Protestants were MURDEROUS LAND-GRABBING THUGS. So excuse me if I carry this forward to the present: where gunning down and enslaving infidels,heathens and Jews has been replaced with kinder, gentler form of intolerance, which is killing people.
Oh, and tell those closeted gay priests to stop molesting altar boys, OK? And when they get caught, DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT besides covering it up, defending the priests and bribing the victims with tax-free money.
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"Dear Lord", he began in his calm ministerial tone, "we beg you to lift the scales from the eyes of those who serve as our public officials. Let them awaken to the evil influences around us and further serve Your will." This elicited a few quiet expressions of agreement from the respectful audience.
"And if they refuse to see then SMITE THEM, LORD! CAST THEM INTO THE FIERY PIT, FOR THEY ARE THE ENEMY OF YOUR PEOPLE AND SERPENTS IN YOUR LAND!", he concluded, his beet-red face scrunched up in spiritual intensity. The crowd erupted in rousing applause and hoots, with many shouts of "AMEN!"
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Seriously? Somehow that "clean all-American fun" image just took on a whole sinister aspect.
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Back in teh 1970s my uncle beat the shit out of a Bircher who called him a "lousy kike." My uncle was arrested and we thought there was going to be a trial, but I think some, er, pressure was put on the beatee to not testify.
Jersey.
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And how new can this New World Order be if it goes back 200 years?
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