Pope flies over sea of young pilgrims
Believers or not, that must have freaked them out.
Bogie at 11 o’clock!
Hey, this is the way I feel about PP’s arguments: Chechen strongman calls on Russian army to give up premises
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Obama uses “regal we,” admits need for much better intelligence
Russians like the old czars better
Their arms aren’t THAT short (yeah, I know everyone’s discussed this, but I thought the “feel the pinch” bit was funny, too)
Zimbabweans lead Americans in mathematics; new currency backed by long division (h/t Hot Air Headlines)
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“Some 5 million Australians describe themselves as Catholic, but less than one million attend Sunday mass and the number may have dropped to about 100,000 in the past 5 years.
Around 1,000 protesters marched in Sydney on Saturday against Church teachings on sexual morality, trying to hand out condoms to pilgrims.”
Clear reporting.
Sister Betrille says:
When lift + thrust > load + drag, anything will fly!
Years ago I saw this headline in some paper or another: “Pope Flies in on Turkey Visit”. This was JPII.
The brother saved and framed the headline, minus the “Visit”.
WE still chuckle over that one.
Mother Goose has nothing over JPII, Patrick.
“….hundreds of thousands of young Catholic pilgrims who staged an all-night vigil at Sydney’s main horse racing track…”
– After a benediction for the gathered throng, the Pope gave rail odds, but only on perfecta’s and trifecta’s.
I was always a big fan of JPII.
I can remember, when I was in college in the late 1970s and early 1980s, seeing people wearing the “Solidarnosc” badges. When JPII visited Poland in 1979, he started ringing the death knell for communism in that country, and in Eastern Europe in general.
Along with Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, he was the right person at the right time to liberate hundreds of millions from an ideology that had killed tens of millions.
How lucky I am to have walked the same earth as such titans!
He was one awesome guy, it’s true. BE NOT AFRAID!
From Dan’s ‘pinch’ link…
“Nunez and most of her siblings and their spouses are unemployed and rely on government assistance and food stamps.”
Ummmm….the accompanying photo belies the assertion that there’s any ‘lift and thrust’ that could overcome their desire to ‘load’ up a few plates and ‘drag’ their asses to the nearest couch to watch endless hours of Survivor and, come November, vote for the party that promises more and more government cheese.
I’m self-condemning, but only grudgingly.
You remind me of a comment I heard, a long time ago, about the F-111.
A Navy Captain (O-6), asked by McNamara whether the F-111 could make it as a Navy fighter aircraft if it had higher-thrust engines, replied “There isn’t enough thrust in all of Christendom to make that a fighter aircraft.”
Oh, and speaking of pinch.
That is a classic Iowahawk piece.
Oh, it started out just as good.
Those poor, poor people in Ohio! They look like they’re about to starve.
I’d be worried, but I just can’t see any way one of them could choke the other one down.
They’d just need to do it one partial appendage at a time is all, with cautery (stops bleeding, adds flavor), that way they could take turns eating each other.
So, there I was at Border’s this morning (I’m twisted, that way), when I overheard a father and son conversation about multiplying 16 by 8. I explained to them the idea of 2^4 * 2^3 = 2^7.
Thank God I didn’t have to get into 10^11.
Give Zimbabweans a week and they’ll be able to googol their currency.
Shall we?
Let’s gin up Jeff’s numbers, since it means so much.
NPR is just degrading.
It’s all optional. Never forget it.
What’s with the solicitude for PW, daphne?
It was thought the Pope couldn’t do a negative G pushover. However, Maverick claims he was inverted in a negative 4G dive when he flipped off the Pope.
Goose got a nice polaroid.
‘Charlie’ was unavailable for comment.
#17
Still got nuthin, huh.
– Hows the ass Daffy – did the sitzbath help?