New pope becomes topic on Capitol Hill

While visiting with the House GOP conference for just the fourth time in his presidency, President Obama received some breaking news -- the College of Cardinals had elected a new pope. Sources in the room tell NBC News that Obama aide Rob Nabors handed the president a note saying that white smoke was billowing out of the Vatican.

Obama then told the House GOP Conference that there was a new pope, to which the Republican audience cheered and clapped. One GOP member joked, “Does that white smoke mean the tours at the White House are back on?” to which the president replied, “They’re on at the Vatican!”

Obama told reporters the meeting with the GOP “good and useful,” and said he was looking forward to finding out who the new pope would be.

Twenty minutes later when the news broke the new Pope would be Argentinian Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), the highest ranking Catholic Republican in the country, congratulated the new Pope and expressed delight that the Bergoglio hailed from South America, “I'm happy that they were able to come to a choice as quickly as they did. I think that reaching out beyond the traditional continent of our church is another big step in the right direction for our church.”

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So, they chose an old white guy... again...

Never saw that one coming!

Let's see if this one can purge to pedophiles out of the Church!

Until then, it will be business as usual regardless of where he hails from!

  • 16 votes
#1 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 5:11 PM EDT

All day on Vatican watch......

What are the Evangelicals doing? What are the Baptists doing? What are the Methodists doing?.....

What are the non-believers doing? What are the heathens doing?

Nevermind.....seems no other religious belief system matters as much!

....Smoke....smoke....smoke..........

  • 14 votes
#1.1 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 5:25 PM EDT

Feisty I'm sure you wanted a women Pope... sorry.

  • 10 votes
#1.2 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 5:37 PM EDT

Hello folks, the Vatican City is one of three corrupt city states, the other two are the City of London and the District of Columbia, together these three sovereign state corporations run the world. They all have one thing in common, they are all corrupt!

In terms of the new Pedophile in Chief, Pope Moe Lester the XVII, some things never change. Here's the new boss same as the old boss!

The problem is not just with the number of priests who molests young children, but in
a Vatican power structure which harbors and conceals pedophiles, hides other
sexual behavior patterns among its clerics and uses the strategies of duplicity
and counterattack against the victims. You think this relic has the power to usurp the control of the real pontiff in charge, Hans Kolvenbach, he doesn't. That's like the President reeling in the Federal Reserve banksters, it aint going to happen!

Pedophile priests have molested innocent children in the Roman Catholic Church probably since the beginning of the church. These pedophiles have been protected and their horrendous crimes against children have gone unpunished. It is amazing to me that there are over a billion Catholics. I guess acceptance of pedophilia in the church is the cost of "salvation" aye!

Come on, wake up, the Vatican just this week paid out another 10 million in the LA diocese to victims to cover up their pedophiles. In 2007 they paid 660 Million in the same diocese. This is going on all around the globe.

These heinous crimes continue because good people don't speak up and allow the bad people to continue their crimes against humanity.

Not any longer, that is why you see so many people speaking out saying enough is enough. Those that continue to support these crimes after all the evidence are complicit and will suffer the same Karmic repercussions.

If you go to (http://www.bishop-accountability.org/settlements/) you can see the vast and I mean vast numbers of pedophilia settlements the church has paid out in the US alone.

  • 7 votes
#1.3 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 5:41 PM EDT

Priest to Bishop "Hey, we have a real problem! All these boys coming out with stories of how they were molested!! We really need to do something serious!"

Bishop "Yes, I agree, but how do we stop these boys from talking?"

Priest "Whaaaat???? I mean, we need to teach these priest not to molest these boys!!"

Bishop "HAAAAAAHAAAAA!!!! That is the funniest thing I heard all week! Can't wait to call the pope with that one!"

  • 5 votes
#1.4 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 5:48 PM EDT

Breaking News:

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The 'cannibal Cop' was convicted yesterday in New York. He planned to abduct, rape, kill, cook, and then eat women.

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what a psycho...oink.

  • 5 votes
#1.5 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 5:51 PM EDT

I thought the Progressives would stand up and cheer since the NEW Pope made a speech about Wealth Redistribution. So, now we have the terrorist organization United Nations doing it so why not the Vatican.

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FLYesity always has something GOOD TO SAY about everything......."So, they chose an old white guy... again". GREAT JOB !!!

If you can't baffle them with brilliance, you dazzle them with B***S...

  • 7 votes
#1.6 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 6:03 PM EDT

Pope Obama set your mind straight Fisty? The only Nobel Prize Pope and his isn't white!

Give me a break with your same old liberal $hit.Different topic, same old responses.

  • 5 votes
#1.7 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 6:14 PM EDT

New Pope brings new Hope.

  • 4 votes
#1.8 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 6:16 PM EDT

I'm sure you wanted a women Pope

No way a nun would tolerate and protect the pedophiles which infect the religion!

  • 14 votes
#1.9 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 6:17 PM EDT

So, they chose an old white guy... again...

Never saw that one coming!

Geeze Fisty, being oh so religious you are, i can see why you would care...oh you dont? so why did you post then? To do it and be first? i see...yeah im the attention whore...

more garbage in, garbage out from the FR Queen of Damned

  • 12 votes
#1.10 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 6:19 PM EDT

Pope Obama set your mind straight Fisty? The only Nobel Prize Pope and his isn't white!

Always bringing up the Nobel Prize. It must piss Conservatives off to see that President Carter, Vice President Gore and President Obama are Nobel laureates but President Bush didn't get one!

(For starting a war???)

  • 12 votes
#1.11 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 6:21 PM EDT

Hello folks, what other organization can continue to operate after it is caught raping children over and over again. WalMart couldn't continue to sell rakes if they did the same thing. What are they going to say, sorry folks we had a little problem in aisle 3 in the children's half pants off sale but everything is ok now! They would be shut down in a heart beat!

  • 6 votes
#1.12 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 6:26 PM EDT

funnygirl2

I read Feisty's comment as 'Pope Ubiquitous' ... but you seem to have let you.r dislike of her to get in the way and played the Feisty is guilty card. Oh look Culus is holding the same card.

  • 8 votes
#1.13 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 6:26 PM EDT

. It must piss Conservatives off to see that President Carter, Vice President Gore and President Obama

hey hows global warming and Peace working out for you Noid? what none of that happened..its almost like that Prize should come from cracker jack...

  • 4 votes
#1.14 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 6:27 PM EDT

And just what is wrong with an old white guy or would prefer an old white woman? Frankly we need a rabbi as pope. Have i got a deal for you!!!!!! Psssst, there are female rabbis in the reform branch of Judaism. And for the most part Jews don't kill each other or molest children like you Christians and Mormons do.

  • 6 votes
#1.15 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 6:28 PM EDT

Republican CPAC Conclave convening tomorrow.

Plenty of White smoke gonna come out of the chimney.

  • 2 votes
#1.16 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 6:29 PM EDT

but you seem to have let your dislike of her to get in the way and played the Feisty is guilty card.

What else is new from the latest reincarnation of nottheleastbitfunnyoldbroad 2.0?

It's flattering to have the same crew of trolls follow me from thread to thread and offer NOTHING but personal attacks! lol

Says more about their "character" & what they represent then I ever could! ;o)

  • 9 votes
#1.17 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 6:30 PM EDT

more MISANDRY from Fisty nothing more...

's flattering to have the same crew of trolls follow me from thread to thread and offer NOTHING but personal attacks! lol

LMAO...I take it the old gal has no mirrors around..oh well..finding bliss in ignorance

  • 4 votes
#1.18 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 6:35 PM EDT

Bali Bob

Plenty of White smoke gonna come out of the chimney.

When Pope Santorum speaks the smoke will be brown with a twist of sulfur.

  • 7 votes
#1.19 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 6:37 PM EDT

I wish they would of selected "Pope" "Peel", imagine what it would do for the sales of pocket fisherman? ☺

  • 6 votes
#1.20 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 6:38 PM EDT

Greetings Caesar. Be nice to Feisty. A Rabbi for Pope. Cardinal Al (as in Gore) has a nice ring to it no? The point being made here is nothing will change. Just a show as in BUSINESS. And that is what the church is! SUCKERS!

Like the term "misandry" the opposite of misogynist. Lotsa gals hate men on this board. Cucumbers anyone?

  • 2 votes
#1.21 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 6:39 PM EDT

@Feisty,

Didn't Jesus carry a Popeel Pocket Fisherman?

And then, what was the thing Saturday Night Live did?

"It slices, it dices..."

  • 3 votes
#1.22 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 6:42 PM EDT

Fr Guido Sarducci: "counta the Popes inna da pizza"

Drive By Observer: "counta the Speakers onna da bar stool"

2014 voters: "counta da Tea Baggers inna da toilet"

Hey, CA- who's-a da 'fisty'? Some dude inna you fantasy??

  • 7 votes
#1.23 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 6:43 PM EDT

Driveby...I take back my comments about a rabbi for Pope. Fr. Guido for Pope. LMAO

  • 2 votes
#1.24 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 6:46 PM EDT

Hey, CA- who's-a da 'fisty'? Some dude inna you fantasy??

its the Pope Redhead from Roselle...dont act like you dont get your full cavitiy search from he/she. WORD

  • 3 votes
#1.25 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 6:49 PM EDT

"It slices, it dices..."

Remember the Bass-O-Matic? lol

Lotsa gals hate men on this board. Cucumbers anyone?

Sorry Torp,

This "gal" isn't one of them! ;o)

I like women BUT I ♥ men!

  • 7 votes
#1.26 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 6:52 PM EDT

@Drive,

"counta da Popes inna da pizza"

Almost made-a me spit da beer from outta my mout-a!

  • 4 votes
#1.27 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 6:55 PM EDT

hey drivel by, btw, whats with the homophobia? is this more librul tolerance? surely you wouldnt have problems if i were gay would you? your right wingnut is showing ;o)

  • 3 votes
#1.29 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 7:01 PM EDT

"dont act like you dont get your full cavitiy search.."

Mmmm...full cavity search. Hey, Senator 'wide-stance' from I Da Ho'- where y' at big guy?

Hey, Feisty- suppose No Jo got the market cornered on those cukes yet y' didn't want? Or mayby 'pork-chop' Smiff?

(sorry, Pigotry- there is another lurking in my past life....)

  • 4 votes
#1.30 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 7:04 PM EDT

Nice to see so many old timers on here that remember the Sarducci skit.

CA- as usual, I have to ask: WTF are you going on about??

  • 4 votes
#1.31 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 7:07 PM EDT

I am currently in Mexico and the locals are thrilled at the first Latin American Pope. I wish him well.

  • 9 votes
#1.32 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 7:29 PM EDT

House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), the highest ranking Catholic Republican in the country, congratulated the new Pope and.....

stated he's really looking forward to meeting him for a drink. I mean, what the hell, neither of them work for a living.

  • 7 votes
#1.33 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 7:33 PM EDT

CA- as usual, I have to ask: WTF are you going on about??

Some dude inna you fantasy??

hey drivel by, btw, whats with the homophobia? is this more librul tolerance? surely you wouldnt have problems if i were gay would you? your right wingnut is showing ;o)

are you trackin yet or do you need a road map. Perhaps English as a Second language or would that make me a 'racist'?

  • 1 vote
#1.34 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 7:34 PM EDT

I really don't care who is pope. Anyone who thought they would elect anyone but a conservative, white guy was living a lie. It's nice to see that he isn't the usual pink and sweaty European white guy but as far as papal doctrine is concerned - same old, same old.

  • 7 votes
#1.35 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 7:41 PM EDT

Well it looks like Vatican City has a new Sheriff!!... And St Peter has a new duly-elected successor!!... Now if we can just get this whole buggery hoopla into the cold case files we'll be set to jet...

  • 5 votes
#1.36 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 7:41 PM EDT

I really don't care who is pope

Me either, Kim!

Being a recovering Catholic does have it's advantages! ;o)

Walked out of the "cult" at 13 and have NEVER looked back!

  • 5 votes
#1.37 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 7:43 PM EDT

I love the way fisty seems to find her brain in her rectal cavity when she knows the head of the Catholic church will always be a man.

Maybe the problem is fisty has daddy issues, or maybe always wanted a penis.

  • 4 votes
#1.38 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 7:45 PM EDT

funnygirl - You are really not very funny and your obsession with stalking Feisty and commenting on everything she says if very creepy.

  • 9 votes
#1.39 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 7:49 PM EDT

or maybe always wanted a penis.

already had her pegged as having a tootsie roll between the legs..after all she fancies all things miniature..her words

  • 1 vote
#1.40 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 7:49 PM EDT

Gotcha, Funny. Say..... HOW many popes been female by now?

No, wait- I meant Cardinals.

No, wait- I meant Bishops.

No, wait- I meant ArchBishops.

No, wait- I meant Monsigniors

No, wait- I meant Preists.

No, wait- I meant Altar Boyz.

No, wait- I think I see what you mean......

  • 5 votes
#1.41 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 7:55 PM EDT

You are really not very funny and your obsession with stalking Feisty and commenting on everything she says if very creepy.

Hiya Kim!

All you have to do is look at it's comment history to see, he's competing for the #1 Feisty leg-humper spot!

Some poor thing has a bad case of Feisty obsession! lol

Not to mention it has re-regged so many times, I have lost count! ☺

Best to keep it and it's ilk on ignore!

  • 6 votes
#1.42 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 7:56 PM EDT

"...Perhaps English as a Second language or would that make me a 'racist'?.."

What would being an afficianado of the ol' sperm soda make you?

  • 3 votes
#1.43 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 7:57 PM EDT

So, they chose an old white guy... again

By all accounts he's a caring, giving human being. Probably helped more people in a single year than you've helped in a lifetime.

Only a racist, hate-filled, low-information individual would go out of its way to seek to denigrate a good person based on skin hue.

  • 7 votes
#1.44 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 7:57 PM EDT

"Being a recovering Catholic does have it's advantages! ;o)"

AMEN, there, Feisty. I mean, how do you think I came up with the idea of giving up SELF DENIAL for Lent?

  • 4 votes
#1.45 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 7:59 PM EDT

Feisty - What is it about you girl that drives the crazies even crazier? They stalk your every move and comment on most everything you say. Caesar not only comments on everything you say but he also comments on every thing anyone else says about what you say. I still love you and so do the rest of your liberal friends. Hang in their and keep up the fight. E-mail me if you ever come to Florida!!!

  • 7 votes
#1.46 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 8:00 PM EDT

Probably helped more people in a single year than you've helped in a lifetime.

Where ever you took your crystal ball for repairs, if I were you Egghead, I would demand a FULL refund, dumb@!$%#!

YOU know nothing about me and what I contribute to society, so sit down and STFU!

Please tell me all knowing one, when a Pope has ever been a man of color who didn't have a foot on the banana peel?

Best to read, prior to sucking on your foot!

  • 5 votes
#1.47 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 8:01 PM EDT
magyar27Deleted

Caesar not only comments on everything you say but he also comments on every thing anyone else says about what you say

Couldn't tell you Kim!

I have had that douche-bag on IGNORE for over a year! Funny thing is he doesn't recognize it! Seems to think I read the crap it expounds! lol

Best thing to do is take the wing out of these @!$%#s sails...

They GOT nothing! ;o)

I still love you and so do the rest of your liberal friends.

I LOVE you too GF! If I ever have to make another trek to FL, I will absolutely let you know!

But please keep it up. Your airheaded comments make us all laugh Jen.

Says one of our latest re-regs.. right Goober? lol

Enjoy it while you can...

  • 7 votes
#1.49 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 8:04 PM EDT

Unbelievable.

You people are disgusting.

And yes, I said You People.

Don't worry though. The Pope will pray for you.

  • 6 votes
#1.50 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 8:07 PM EDT

What would being an afficianado of the ol' sperm soda make you?

please tell me..i would love to hear more librul non homophic axioms

maybe you just like pictures drawn out in order to understand...

drive-by-observer

Gotcha, Funny. Say..... HOW many popes been female by now?

No, wait- I meant Cardinals.

No, wait- I meant Bishops.

No, wait- I meant ArchBishops.

No, wait- I meant Monsigniors

No, wait- I meant Preists.

No, wait- I meant Altar Boyz.

No, wait- I think I see what you mean......

WOw.whew...with such a great understanding of the Catholic church perhaps you can enlighten us with your vast knowledge of WHY...or maybe you can tap Fisty for some of that great knowledge too..after all at 13 she left the cult.

in fact Drivel By, maybe you can tell us why you care so much about WHO is elected as Pope? It must affect your life in many ways...

White Collar Auto

Unbelievable.

You people are disgusting.

And yes, I said You People.

Don't worry though. The Pope will pray for you.

these liberal baboons are so fvcked in the head, there is no help...im trying to figure out why this burning hate for religion they could care less about... Im sure its for the 'kids'.... What senator is being investigated for having sex with a minor again? shhhhh....

  • 7 votes
#1.51 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 8:10 PM EDT

White Collar Auto - I hope he does pry for us. He can pray for anyone he wants to pray for. A prayer from him would be nice. A prayer from anyone would be nice. We, the disgusting people, appreciate the thought.

  • 5 votes
#1.52 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 8:14 PM EDT

I have had that douche-bag on IGNORE for over a year! Funny thing is he doesn't recognize it! Seems to think I read the crap it expounds! lol

KimH, I have no delusions that retard reads what i write..id ignore everyone too if i was called out for being a dumfux hyporite...Problem is Intolerant Kim, maybe you can shed some light to what the point of the lead off comment was by your very one Liberal Grand Pooba? Im sure you can deliver us from evil. Then again, you lick Fisty's perineum and call it good...

  • 4 votes
#1.53 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 8:18 PM EDT

The fisting deadhead is right. I have erred...spending 13 hours a day on First Read is contributing to humanity.

My apologies.

  • 5 votes
#1.54 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 8:18 PM EDT

Hey Simple Theory, only some of these Libbies at First Read could have an ego big enough to imply that they have done more for society than the newly elected Pope.

That alone, should tell anyone who reads these threads all they need to know about Liberals.

  • 8 votes
#1.55 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 8:21 PM EDT

I have erred...spending 13 hours a day on First Read is contributing to humanity.

nothing like Promoting GIVE ME A FISH FEED ME FOR LIFE....

thank you simple theory for the laugh

  • 6 votes
#1.56 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 8:23 PM EDT

That alone, should tell anyone who reads these threads all they need to know about Liberals.

So says the perpetual victim who claims to have a wife and children, yet spends his free time trolling a liberal web-site! LMAO!

When I had a young child at home, the LAST thing I did was waste precious time trying to win a "one upper-er" lmfao@U

Tells me volumes on how your "family" feels about dumb@!$%# daddy!

PS: Save your dog whistle bull@!$%# for your brain dead brethren who attempt to prop up you credibility! lol

  • 7 votes
#1.57 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 8:27 PM EDT

Feisty, for one last time, you know absolutely nothing about me.

You can take your worthless comments about my daughters and go to hell.

Tell me Feisty, does that daughter of yours actually work with Special Needs kids or is she a special needs kid.

Probably a victim of Fetal alcohol syndrome, based on your drinking history.

Get back to Rehab old girl. That week back last fall wasn't near enough.

  • 3 votes
#1.58 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 8:32 PM EDT

Feisty, for one last time, you know absolutely nothing about me.

So sorry, my little victim, I am only commenting on the bull@!$%# YOU have shared in the past!

DTell me Feisty, does that daughter of yours actually work with Special Needs kids or is she a special needs kid.

Tell me Feisty, does that daughter of yours actually work with Special Needs kids or is she a special needs kid

Nice try my little rump rider, yet NO dice!

Don't like it? Too @!$%#ing BAD, YOU were the one who shared it

Don't share your personal information, and what EVER you DO quit pissing yourself YOU poor excuse as a human being when you get busted!

Get back to Rehab old girl.

Translation = I have nothing! lmao!

  • 5 votes
#1.59 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 8:43 PM EDT

when a Pope has ever been a man of color who didn't have a foot on the banana peel?

Hilarious.

Don't share your personal information, and what EVER you DO quit pissing yourself YOU poor excuse as a human being when you get busted

That's about as pathetic a human being as it gets.

I don't think you have a chance of ever being Pope.

  • 2 votes
#1.60 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 8:47 PM EDT

Translation = I have nothing! lmao!

Translation - Same old Crap from Nasty nothing new.

Really a shame Feisty that you ruined your daughter's life by drinking during pregnancy. Maybe you should have aborted her to save her from her miserable life with you as a drunken mother.

You are a piece of work, I wander in here a half dozen or so times a day a few days a week and you can't resist the urge to hump my leg.

Once a hooker always a hooker, eh?

  • 2 votes
#1.61 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 8:55 PM EDT

Huge shout out to SCOTT PROUTY, the 47% video that you captured of Willard saved us all!

Thank You....Take Care!

  • 5 votes
#1.62 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 8:58 PM EDT

Huge shout out to SCOTT PROUTY, the 47% video that you captured of Willard saved us all!

Hear hear! Willard the Rat was exposed thanks to the timely camera work of this guy. He deserves a big round of applause. Sad That Ed Schultz is leaving his nightly 8 pm spot, but excited to see his weekend shows.

  • 6 votes
#1.63 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 9:16 PM EDT

Ezra Klein would be an interesting replacement to Ed.

  • 3 votes
#1.64 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 9:56 PM EDT

Feisty is a foul, bitter, dried up human being.

Instead of maybe being happy that they selected someone outside of Italy, or even Europe, we have to hear the usual hate filled bigotry.

Apparently Feisty is to IGNORANT to know that the Pope will always be a male. And since the new Pope hails from Argentina and is therefore a HISPANIC, he hardly qualifies as a "white guy".

Grow up Feisty. I've got a 6 year old grandson with more MATURITY and INTELLIGENCE than you.

  • 1 vote
#1.65 - Thu Mar 14, 2013 9:35 AM EDT

Kim,

kimH-1330542

Feisty - What is it about you girl that drives the crazies even crazier? They stalk your every move and comment on most everything you say. Caesar not only comments on everything you say but he also comments on every thing anyone else says about what you say. I still love you and so do the rest of your liberal friends. Hang in their and keep up the fight. E-mail me if you ever come to Florida!!!

Talk about weird. Why on earth would you slink around in the background fighting Fisty's fights for it, and then try to get a hookup with it if it's ever in Florida. I like to read this stuff for entertainment and to try to figure out the liberal mindset, but you're just strange.

  • 2 votes
#1.67 - Thu Mar 14, 2013 3:48 PM EDT

Fisty,

kimH-1330542

Feisty - What is it about you girl that drives the crazies even crazier? They stalk your every move and comment on most everything you say. Caesar not only comments on everything you say but he also comments on every thing anyone else says about what you say. I still love you and so do the rest of your liberal friends. Hang in their and keep up the fight. E-mail me if you ever come to Florida!!!

Looks like Kim likes you. She wants you to give her a shout if you ever come to Florida, probably wants to rub monkeys or something.

  • 1 vote
#1.68 - Thu Mar 14, 2013 3:53 PM EDT

KCBones - You are one sick little man. Feisty and I have been on line friends for a long time. Go F&%K yourself you cretin.

  • 1 vote
#1.69 - Thu Mar 14, 2013 7:24 PM EDT
Reply

Likely fewer abuse scandals emanating from South America....not necessarily less abuse, just less talk about it.

  • 8 votes
Reply#2 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 5:20 PM EDT

Good point, Ursula!

  • 6 votes
#2.1 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 5:27 PM EDT

Yep, the door is left wide open for Wisconsin and Cheeeecago.

  • 2 votes
#2.2 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 6:05 PM EDT
Reply

Now would be a good time to pull our ambassador as a token warning that Papal Policies that harm young American citizens will not be tolerated.

  • 6 votes
Reply#3 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 5:27 PM EDT

OK, so, does anyone actually realize how unimportant this actually is. Old people, old ways. Whatever

  • 6 votes
Reply#4 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 5:27 PM EDT

Well over a billion Catholics world-wide seem to think it's pretty important.

  • 8 votes
#4.1 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 5:49 PM EDT

Well over a billion Catholics world-wide seem to think it's pretty important.

Practicing, faithful Catholics....or just catholics every now and then...but on the billion thingy, There's probably a billion Chinese....

So your point is what?

  • 3 votes
#4.2 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 5:59 PM EDT

Okay, time out...everyone back to your corner.

At some point Rodney King was correct...can't we all just get along?

We all need to be respectful of people of ALL faiths...even of those who choose to be atheists. Now, knock it off.

  • 9 votes
#4.3 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 6:09 PM EDT

@Da Noid.....I agree but.....see my above post at:

#1.1 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 4:25 PM CDT

Now, knock it off.......lol

  • 4 votes
#4.4 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 6:41 PM EDT

Wow - wasn't trying to start a "thing". LOL

There are also protestant faiths that still give some recognition to the pope; I'm not even catholic, I just find it interesting.

Never fear: this will be old news within 48 hours and you won't have to hear about it again until the next conclave.

  • 1 vote
#4.5 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 7:46 PM EDT

Thanks Noid.

I wish your friends would follow your lead.

  • 2 votes
#4.6 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 8:10 PM EDT
Reply

The only problem with the first Latin American Pope is he's Italian! Same old Vatican.

  • 1 vote
Reply#5 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 5:31 PM EDT

BREAKING NEWS:

After Barack Obama claimed today that the US has no debt crisis,

He has officially taken a new name:

"Pope Bankrupt the First"

  • 7 votes
Reply#6 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 5:31 PM EDT

.... your wit is bankrupt ... maybe someone will come along and bail you out.

  • 9 votes
#6.1 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 5:40 PM EDT

Hello @GOP, while Obama's new nickname is heeeelarious (LOL). Both parties are equally complicit in our bankruptcy.

  • 4 votes
#6.2 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 5:45 PM EDT

[...maybe someone will come along and bail you out.]

Cacafuego will be here in a moment...there's no gun thread to park his sorry ass in this afternoon.

  • 7 votes
#6.3 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 6:00 PM EDT
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magyar ... nice suit and cap, fits you to a T and shows off your KaraKKter. You must shop at the same store as CA, Thor Steiner's.

  • 3 votes
#6.5 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 8:31 PM EDT
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I wonder if Rob Nabors is related to Jim Nabors.

  • 2 votes
Reply#7 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 5:34 PM EDT

The Olive Branch

  • 1 vote
Reply#8 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 5:34 PM EDT

Awesome! I can't wait for this to become yesterday's news!

  • 4 votes
Reply#9 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 6:16 PM EDT

Quick Quiz...

True or False...Pope Francis is the first non-European Pope in history?

  • 1 vote
Reply#10 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 6:22 PM EDT

False.

  • 1 vote
#10.1 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 7:32 PM EDT
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Oh Fiesty, always ready with "White people bad". Racism is a mind set, and you have it bad. If you assume by the color of a person's skin that they condone child abuse as you just did, then you are a racist. If your first concern is the color of the skin then finding out about the character, you have a racism problem. How are you different from those rednecks you claim to dislike so much? Congratulations to all you Catholics on your new Pope. I think the church has influence on enough followers in this world that any wise politician will see the value of it being a topic.

  • 5 votes
Reply#11 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 6:35 PM EDT

New Pope? Who cares.

  • 1 vote
Reply#12 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 6:45 PM EDT

One wonders what the new Pope thinks about the so-called little "Richie Rich Ryan" budget plan? A "Scorched Earth Policy" is not a credible Budget Plan. That is fact!

  • 3 votes
Reply#13 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 6:50 PM EDT

Hellfire...please change your handle to "ridiculous 80's ditto-head" Are you paying FICA taxes, or are you on the "dole?" Are you okay with your 6.2 percent going to big insurance companies? Do you trust them, and their multi seven figure CEOs to take care of you when you're 68?

You DO realize that you are working your whole life to become a "lazy, entitled bum," right? What should our government do with all the money YOU have already given them to insure you can see a doctor when you're 70? A new heavy bomber at 2 billion each? Space lasers that never existed and were impossible to begin with? Please, tell us! ffftt

  • 5 votes
#13.2 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 7:30 PM EDT
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Wonder if this guy will address the problem of pedophilia that has been rampant within the Catholic Church?

  • 2 votes
Reply#14 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 7:08 PM EDT

Great stuff. Harkened back to the old days!

I did, Bali Bob!

It was CLASSIC SNL!

  • 4 votes
#14.1 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 7:21 PM EDT

@Feisty,

Yep. Took me back to the days when watching SNL was a ritual!

btw sorry about edit thing- thought I hit "reply" on your post...

  • 3 votes
#14.2 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 7:28 PM EDT

Yep. Took me back to the days when watching SNL was a ritual!

Ahhh Yesss... the good old glory days! lol

btw sorry about edit thing- thought I hit "reply" on your post...

No problemo, the FR gremlins are ravenous lately! ;o)

  • 4 votes
#14.3 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 7:42 PM EDT
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I'm sure the Pope...just like the last one will spank little nasty Ryan. But it won't do any good. God could tell

him to grow a heart..,.and it would make no difference. After all, He Is A Teabagger.

  • 4 votes
Reply#15 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 7:18 PM EDT

Most of the remarks made on this topic are not only hateful, they have no baring at all to do with where he came from except to the GOP on Capital Hill. That is the topic of this article isn't it?m

I am sure it came as quite a shock to the GOP that a Latin American was chosen because it now puts a wrench in their immigration status. They can no longer deny the American dream to people who have only wanted a better life and to feed their families, I stead of living in fear that their own families will be killed back home if they don't carry out the plans of the drug cartels.

All we ever hear about are those who are illegal who cross the borders into Arizona. We never hear about the one's who are smuggled in from stopping points on neglected Oil rigs and then driven to shore during the night to deserted beach's.

Young children for the sex slave industry, the pretty one's for the Prostitution industry and the others for farm work are sold as slaves. Yet, you never hear from Arizona what happens to them. The Border Patrol are paid off by these people and allow them to be shipped to warehouses awaiting the orders to take them elsewhere.

Where is the outrage over this???

  • 2 votes
Reply#16 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 7:18 PM EDT

Not sure I follow, Diane. How does the nationality of the new pope affect immigration in the US?

  • 3 votes
#16.1 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 7:43 PM EDT
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I wasn't one in favor of the last Pope. I simply didn't like him. Of course he had a tough act to follow with the beloved John Paul II. Pope Francis seems much more friendly and open to the public. He, as a Cardinal, could have lived in a palacial place with chaufers, fancy chefs etc., instead he cooked his own food in his small room in Buenos Aires and rode public transportation. He cares about the poor and the environment. I don't know how he is going to handle the pedifile issue, time will tell. I hope he works to bring the Church into the 21st Century. Despite his simple life he will need to use the tools of the 21st Century to get the message to the masses. The young people, especially, communicate with smart phones, twitter and face book. I don't think he'll go as far as a facebook page but he could. Like Benedict XVI he will probably tweet, will speak on Vatican radio and will instruct his assistants to use the media available to spread the news.

I doubt he will elevate women to priesthood but may give them a greater role in the Church as deacons or other important positions besides Mother Superior or a Nun whose job it is, is to educate the children, help heal the sick and pray a lot.

The Catholic Church has had to evolve over the centuries to keep its members. We are at a point where the Church is losing members. Men are not going into the priesthood like they once did and that will be worse as fewer priests will be around due to the sex scandals. The good ones may well become Bishops who will replace the Bishops who turned a blind eye to the pedophilia and on up the line.

Pope Francis is in his 70s and, although he my live well into his 90s I would have prefered a much younger Pope, one who will have the time needed to implement reforms in an instatution that moves slower than the US Congress when making changes.

  • 5 votes
Reply#17 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 7:43 PM EDT

Well the President is sending Joe Biden to the Vatican for Pope Francis's first mass which good ole Joe, a practicing Catholic does not believe in Catholic doctrine regarding abortions and birth control. What a farce he might as well not send in anyone or at least send somebody who does believe in the doctine!!

  • 2 votes
Reply#18 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 8:10 PM EDT

I don't see why our politicians care who the new pope or the old pope is for that matter.They need to pass the budget and stop finding other things to distract themselves.I can't wait for the pope news to go away.

  • 1 vote
Reply#19 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 10:43 PM EDT

Why?

    Reply#20 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 11:39 PM EDT

    OMG- this pope actually read the bible and believes that the wealthy have a responsibility to the poor. Now that won't fly too well at CPAC, but Ryan might learn something.

    not being susceptible to superstition and man made religions, true salvation comes when you realize that God created science. reason and logic are the word, scientific study truly divine. Magic and medieval beliefs are fine for CPAC, but the crimes against women and children will take a lot more than Pope that understands how wealth corrupts. I do hope he can move the church forward and make amends for the horrible perversion the church defends.

    as for abortion, child molesters have no credibility and the bible says nothing about the subject

    • 1 vote
    Reply#21 - Wed Mar 13, 2013 11:45 PM EDT

    You'll find that most people that actually feel the need to GIVE and HELP others read the bible. Meanwhile, we have pieces of garbage like Biden, who despite being a MILLIONAIRE many times over can't even give 1% to charities and the poor.

    Your middle comments are nothing but stupidity

    And as for abortion you might want to think about: But you, O God, do see trouble and grief; you consider it to take it in hand. The victim commits himself to you; you are the HELPER OF THE FATHERLESS. (I doubt that means to shove a needle into a child's brain simply because good old "mom" decided she didn't want it)

    Or maybe: He will defend the affilicted among the people and SAVE the children of the needy. (Again, I doubt that means stick a wire into a woman and "scrape" a child into a drain or jar)

    Or possibly: Sons are a heritage from the Lord, children a REWARD from him. (Oh wait, except when some liberal or feminist tells you that you have a "right" to choose to kill the child in the womb, and of course explains that it really isn't a CHILD because "reason, logic, and scientific study" have decided that killing children is just fine because it's NOT A HUMAN BEING until some liberal says it is)

    Or perhaps: Whoever welcomes this little child in my name welcomes me. (And since we keep hearing from "geniuses" like you hints that there is not real God, apparently NOT welcoming a child but instead killing it is just fine.)

    And finally: A good man leaves an inheritance for his children's children. (Except if you are a some greedy liberal that thinks TAKING from you and leaving NOTHING for your children and your children's children except DEBT, deficits, and even MORE DEBT is really better. And of course the inheritance that anyone achieves actually belongs to the government)

      #21.1 - Thu Mar 14, 2013 9:55 AM EDT
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      man, i have never read so much negativity or felt so much evil energy... ever! i will pray for each of you and your tarnished hearts. the man above knows my heart is just as tarnished but i would not dare purposely say something to hurt, harm, or degrade another human being. he deserves prayers for the job before him just like eachone of us deserve prayers for our daily lives before us. pray, humans, pray. i try... im not perfect... no one is. but no one deserves such wicked words as i have read here tonight!

        Reply#22 - Thu Mar 14, 2013 1:12 AM EDT

        This man has been extremely vocal about his opposition to both abortion and contraception.

        I wonder if this will affect the political balance in the US if this message is carried to our Hispanic population which up till now, has apparently overlooked the killing of the unborn in favor of government hanmdouts.

          Reply#23 - Thu Mar 14, 2013 8:01 AM EDT

          The science and logic community strives to eliminate all abortions. The Anti-choice crowd simply wants government control of women. The Bible is clear about protecting Child molesters and abortion

          The bible tells us when a fetus becomes a living being.

          Many people think that a human being is created at the time of conception but this belief is not supported by the bible. The fact that a living sperm penetrates a living ovum resulting in the formation of a living fetus does not mean that the fetus is a living human being. According to the bible, a fetus is not a living person with a soul until after drawing its first breath.
          After God formed man in Genesis 2:7, He “breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and it was then that the man became a living being”. Although the man was fully formed by God in all respects, he was not a living being until after taking his first breath.
          In Job 33:4, it states: “The spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.”
          Again, to quote Ezekiel 37:5&6, “Thus says the Lord God to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live. And I will lay sinews upon you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am the Lord.”
          In Exodus 21:22 it states that if a man causes a woman to have a miscarriage, he shall be fined; however, if the woman dies then he will be put to death. It should be apparent from this that the aborted fetus is not considered a living human being since the resulting punishment for the abortion is nothing more than a fine; it is not classified by the bible as a capital offense.
          According to the bible, destroying a living fetus does not equate to killing a living human being even though the fetus has the potential of becoming a human being. One can not kill something that has not been born and taken a breath. This means that a stillborn would not be considered a human being either. Of course, every living sperm has the potential of becoming a human being although not one in a million will make it; the rest are aborted. .
          God has decreed, for one reason or another, that at least one-third of all pregnancies shall be terminated by a spontaneous abortion during the first trimester of pregnancy and that a number will be terminated after the first trimester. It would appear that God does not have any more regard for the loss of a fetus than he does for the loss of a placenta or a foreskin despite the fact that these were living tissue as the result of conception.
          In a number of versions of the bible, one of the commandments in Exodus 20 that was spoken by God to Moses states: “You shall not kill”. According to the Mosaic text, this should read “You shall not murder” since the bible has commandments stating that people shall be put to death for a number of different offenses. Exodus 21:17 states: “Whoever curses his father or mother shall be put to death.” There are other capital offenses in Exodus 21. Of course, the commandment “You shall not kill” is not present in the commandments written by God on the stone tablets. For those who are not familiar with the commandments on the stone tablets that were placed in the Ark of the Covenant, they are enumerated in Exodus 34. The popular ten commandments that are enumerated in Exodus 20 were spoken by God to Moses who then relayed them to his people; they were never written.
          There is nothing in the bible to indicate that a fetus is considered to be anything other than living tissue and, according to scripture, it does not become a living being until after it has taken a breath.

            Reply#24 - Thu Mar 14, 2013 11:09 AM EDT

            The Jesuit just might declare Obama the Great Satan for killing babies making Obama the Devil to all Christians in the world.

              Reply#25 - Thu Mar 14, 2013 11:40 AM EDT
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