25 thoughts on “Hipocrisy Watch”

  1. I’ll get hate back for this, but I’ve always considered the Vatican to be nothing more that religious mafia. They’ve got an inflated sense of self worth.

    • That totally depends on the person who’s sitting on the throne.

      We’ve had a couple good Popes in my lifetime. The communist who currently wears the robe isn’t one. IMO he’s done more to destroy Catholicism than, perhaps anybody. Where the Church runs into difficulty is the same place the UN does — There’s a lot more Marxist nations than there are, nominally-free nations, and the Cardinals from these shitholes vote their background, instead of following Church doctrine.

      • “That totally depends on the person who’s sitting on the throne.” Ray, next time I sit on the throne can I be Pope?

        • I am a Quaker, and have serious problems with the Kingdom of the Vatican (you DO know Vatican City is its own nation, right?)

          Neither of us wants me to answer that question…

      • In Godfather III Cardinal Lamberto (Raf Vallone), a fictional character who will become John Paul I, an actual pope who in 1978 died under mysterious circumstances just a month after becoming pope and, importantly for conspiracy theorists, initiating an investigation into the finances of the Vatican Bank.

        “This pope has very different ideas from the last one.” Archbishop to Lucchesi.

        B.J. Harrison: [about the pope; before the opera] The Pope’s doing exactly what you said he’d do, he’s cleaning house.

        Michael Corleone: He should be careful. It’s dangerous to be an honest man.

  2. Folks,
    According to the Oxford English Dictionary, first use of the word ‘hypocrisy’ appears to have been in the “Ancrene Wisse” (Guide for Anchoresses) of circa 1225 ad. It was an event preferably avoided. The work was a manual for a trio of religious anchoress sisters (church hermits) to abide by while spending their waking hours confined in their church cells.

    It would seem that the French version of “Ancrene Wisse” developed independently in the two centuries following. The French tome returned to English shores in 1491 thanks to a translation by a German immigrant printer to Fleet Street, Wynkyn de Worde. Mr. de Worde was able to cater to aristocratic women of his era with the abridged 1225 work to be known henceforth as “Treatise of Love”. One of ten remaining extant copies is at the Manhattan museum which formerly served as personal library to JP Morgan.

    Mr. de Worde has been honoured with a plaque at the hall of the Worshipful Company of Stationers (and Newspaper Makers since 1937) formed in 1403. The hall of the Worshipful Company has been situated on Ave Maria Lane since 1606. The lane runs between Amen Corner and Ludgate Hill. The latter is suggested to be named after either a pre-Roman founder of London the Welsh King Lud, or the Celtic god of healing, Nodens.

    • Reading your comment leads me to believe you’re quite knowledgeable of early RC history. FYI, I’m curious about their skirmish with the Cathars, ~13th & 14th centuries. Sadly there’s little history out there. Please help if you can, I’d be most grateful.

  3. Cutting the Education Dept won’t work for Red states , especially Bell Counmy Kentucky, where 84% voted for Trump:
    https://www.newsweek.com/warning-donald-trump-catastrophic-cut-school-funds-2016624

    ‘Tom Gambrel, superintendent of schools in Bell County, Kentucky, as well as a Trump supporter, both told CNN that the proposed federal education funding cuts could be “catastrophic” for schools in the state.’

    ‘In addition to being one of the area’s largest employers, Bell County schools provide free breakfast and lunch to all students—services that could be eliminated under Trump’s proposed cuts.

    The county’s school district typically receives about 10 percent of its budget from federal dollars. It received more during the COVID-19 pandemic. Gambrel warned that any cuts to public schools in Bell County could devastate an area already reeling from coal-mine closures.’

    • Cutting Dept of Ed money doesn’t mean cutting money to schools, it means cutting money from bureaucracy and sending it to states without filtering out a fed share and wo fed restrictions and stipulations.

      • No.

        The Department of Education needs to be a decommissioned into the Bureau of Education — A standards organization, with a dozen employees who have neither power nor budget — and it needs to be nothing more.

        Education money comes from State budgets and property tax assessments. There’s no reason State education budgets can’t be increased to replace the pittance the DoE sends to school systems now (after the added Federal layers of bureaucracy are paid.) The only thing the DoE does is make teachers’ union officials wealthy & powerful.

        I have no sympathy for the people who’ve done makework jobs since redundant Federal offices were created. We need more garbagemen and ditch diggers…

        • Education monies also come from the FedGov. I’ve been involved with reporting student demographics for financial reporting and one of the data elements was whether a student’s parent was employed by .gov/.mil. If they were, there were monies that came from FedGov back into the local school budget.

        • @JD in N AL

          “Education monies also come from the FedGov.”

          Yes, but why? This is not the job of the FedGov. The only possible finger they should have in the “educational pie” is to point out regional disparities, to the institutions involved. Anything more is overreach.

    • Go read the Constitution and list the things that the Federal Government is responsible for.
      Is education on the list? If not then the Federal Government has nothing to do with education and educational functions remain a State responsibility. Remove ALL of the Fereral Dept. of Education.
      Now, what other items does the Federal Government involve theirselves in? Check your list and fire all of them not on the list. Now live in greater freedom!

      • By the way, our colleague the Tinkerer didn’t mention it, but if States want to fund higher ed and make up things like arpartied entract ruyles – as long as Constitutional Equality isn’t breached, have fun and enjoy the Tax hikes. States become more, free, too.

  4. It’s the Werewolf game.

    The Ohio governor, DeWine just so happens to operate a Haitian charity all the while speaking out against illegals. Haitians aren’t illegal. Trump told us Haitians eat the cats but Trump also supported DeWine. At least the cats are saved for the next four.

    • The illegal immigration which has caused me both the most personal damage and the most opportunities has been the inbound jumbo jets loaded with quasi-professionals who displace me from higher paying jobs, but provide me with steady work cleaning up their messes. None of the partisan gangs have shown any real interest in shutting this traffic down.

  5. Insurance companies business model?
    1 You send them money for coverage.
    2 Insurance companies try to avoid paying claims?

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