Pope defrocked 400 priests in 2 years

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36. Ha-HAH!1 Thanks for giving me the opening to use the Faux meme against them:

"SOME PEOPLE SAY that AS FAR AS THEY KNOW, Hannity and O'LOOFAH have NOT been accused of child molestation."

Sorry about my imprecise posting, it's just that I've been told that I (sometimes?) have NO FILTER, such that I let my brain synapses crackle as they might in the self-delusion that I'm being funny, only to come across as a dumbass.

My personal context is that of being some kind of lapsed Catholic for some 45 years, but it's so bred into one that it's like in the DNA, with the lingering nostalgia for "the olde religion," the way the first couple of generations after Henry VIII pined for "the olde religion," which for me is at the level of superstition, lighting candles, an invocation to St Anthony to find misplaced items, etc.

In the political context, one of my themes for years has been noticing how some of the biggest wingnut blabbermouths are Catholics, from a Catholic school background: Hannity, the BUCHANANs, unreliable Dems RUSSERT and Tweety, lots of other Italians and Irish. My radio local wingnut talkshow host has said about Liberal Catholics that we should stop pretending to see ourselves as Catholics if we are pro-Choice and other things the church doesn't rule for, that if one is calling 'self a Cath one should go whole hog with the dogma.

But the Catholic yakkers show the Catholic school education, the remnants of Classical indoctrination: all the tools of Rhetoric and dialectics; mastery of the subject, preparing for whatever direction the attacks will come from; rote; loosing anything that will slow down the response time; no shades of gray; scorched earth, all or nothing; using anything like ridicule, humiliation, scorn, mockery, whatever against the opponent. Being a motor mouth.

So my sort of irrational comment about "defrocking" the two jerks was just my slur against them, like wishing they could have lost their Catholic card before they got the very effective training with it.