Hmmmm, I'll take a swipe at a cross connection. File it under 1st Commandment.
One of the NY City Council's rationales, I understand, for extending term limits was that having Bloomberg and other incumbents stay on will help New Yorkers, as well as investors from all over, feel more secure during a stock market crash and a recession. Looking to Bloomberg for security takes oiur eyes off of the one in who our trust truly belongs.
How's that?
joHn
P.S., why didn't they feel the same need in 2001 and keep Giuliani in? ;-)
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Anyway, I tried to find a law to hang Bloomberg on because if something's wrong there has to be one, and if there's a commandment being broken then there's a sermon to be preached. It was weak, I admit.
As to the difference between bishops' pronouncements and the pope, I think you have a good point. Have you noticed how POd everyone gets when a bishop or priest questions a pro-abort demo-lib "catholic" receiving Communion? Gets a lot more attn. even than merely condemning abortion itself. (I think they're right, by the way. We're all sinners, and the Supper is always for the undeserving and unworthy, but there's a huge difference between furtively taking an apple at the grocery store and promoting huge public sinfulness, as in abortion.)
JPII could argue very powerfully and not be shrill. (So can Papa Ratzi.) A lot of indignant bishops tend to be shrill.
joHn
John Hudson
Troutville, Virginia
--
Sarah Palin "is not a serious choice. It makes i
it look like a made-for-TV movie. If the media
reaction is anything, it's been literally laughter
in many places across, in very, very many
newsrooms."
Newsweek's Eleanor Clift on PBS'
"The McLaughlin Group," 8.29.08
1st Commandment can be used for just about anything. I mean really, what's the root of stealing? Wanting what someone else has? Why would you want what someone else has? Because you think it should belong to you? Why would you think such a thing?Because you think you're God? (I know, this doesn;t completely hold water, ut I think it has apoint.)
Anyway, I tried to find a law to hang Bloomberg on because if something's wrong there has to be one, and if there's a commandment being broken then there's a sermon to be preached. It was weak, I admit.
As to the difference between bishops' pronouncements and the pope, I think you have a good point. Have you noticed how POd everyone gets when a bishop or priest questions a pro-abort demo-lib "catholic" receiving Communion? Gets a lot more attn. even than merely condemning abortion itself. (I think they're right, by the way. We're all sinners, and the Supper is always for the undeserving and unworthy, but there's a huge difference between furtively taking an apple at the grocery store and promoting huge public sinfulness, as in abortion.)
JPII could argue very powerfully and not be shrill. (So can Papa Ratzi.) A lot of indignant bishops tend to be shrill.
joHn
John Hudson
Troutville, Virginia
--
Sarah Palin "is not a serious choice. It makes i
it look like a made-for-TV movie. If the media
reaction is anything, it's been literally laughter
in many places across, in very, very many
newsrooms."
Newsweek's Eleanor Clift on PBS'
"The McLaughlin Group," 8.29.08