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Also:

A couple of weeks ago I had an interview with a journalist, and the journalist said to me: “Cardinal Dolan would you tell me the most influential person in your life?” And I said “sure, what do you mean by the most influential person?”
“Well, the person who most guides you, the person who has most formed you, the person you most look to for inspiration and direction, the person you most trust, who’s had the most impact on you.”
And I said: “Oh that’s easy, Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the most influential person in my life.”
And then –and here’s my point — the journalist said: “Oh I’m sorry, it’s got to be somebody alive now.”
I said: “it’s still Jesus Christ because my faith tells me he is alive here and now.”

I think I've eactually heard that exact same anecdote more than once before.

Lol at this journalist walking around engaging in the same line questioning and clarification with all these preachers over all these decades, right before Easter. Get one brane stupid journalist they will keep telling you jesus is alive.

Was Jesus Just Some Good Dude Who Used to Live?

I originally read this as "Was Jesus Just Some Dude" and worried she had found her way to ilx.

This was a journalist of convenience, supplied on demand whenever the anecdote is exhumed.

oh shit thanks dude

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axb1mTUIkG4

Everyone by now has heard the old line that anti-Catholicism is the last acceptable prejudice.

hmmm

Was Jesus Just Some Good Dude Who Used to Live?

Initially scanned as was Jesus just some dude who used to live good?

Was Jesus Just Allright With Me?

http://www.okaygreat.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/june12b.jpg

Pretty Anglo Jesus is alright and always with you, filling in when your GPS is on the fritz

is that LOLwry behind the wheel?

Nah, just Randy Travis' brother

It's annoying when the smug set among atheists bang on about God as an Imaginary Friend, but Kingfish's pic is triply annoying because it completely justifies their pov.

As a smug atheist I just let the poem "Footprints" do all the heavy lifting on the imaginary friend tip.

Guys this is out in just two weeks pre-order yours now omg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51oadWgSoHL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

"write what you know"

no, that's his memoir title

There's a lot to comment on here but I love this:

Today, “objective” journalists, academics and “moderate” politicians peddle some of the most radical arguments by hiding them in homespun aphorisms.

...

* Better ten guilty men go free than one innocent man suffer: So you won’t mind if those ten guilty men move next door to you?

the blackstone ratio is a radical argument?

bet the quotation marks were his idea

some khmer rouge slogans:

"You can arrest someone by mistake; never release him by mistake."
"Better to kill an innocent by mistake than spare an enemy by mistake."
"Better to arrest ten innocent people by mistake than free a single guilty party."

this chris christie bj would be insane even if the new jersey gov didn't just get busted for lying his fat ass off about the cancelled tunnel project

which post has this "ten guilty men" stuff in it?

But up close, when you see him pace across the floor, talking for 30 uninterrupted minutes about his achievements, you sense that this isn’t merely an expertly stage-managed politician, another governor with a large entourage, bravado, and a Patton-esque flag background. He is a cut above.

Whip-smart, articulate, and pleasantly pugnacious, Christie has the aura of a bona fide national sensation. The raucous applause he receives in Middlesex County is the same kind of reception that the governor receives in Orange County, the Rust Belt, and the Deep South. Republicans, from tea-party activists to national-committee grandees, can’t get enough. Team Romney, which has used Christie’s talents on the trail, surely notices. Yet at home, among his grizzled and outspoken constituents, the embrace of Christie is warmer and more intense than it is elsewhere. Speaking with the attendees, from members of the carpenters’ union and GOP state legislators to working-class parents, I don’t hear about Christie as just a future president, but as “the next Ronald Reagan.”

It’s pretty heady stuff.

welcome back, m@rk!

Whip-smart, articulate, and pleasantly pugnacious, Christie has the aura of a bona fide national sensation

the dullest sentence ever written. The grass outside my apartment browned as I read it. God, I hate adverbs.

which post has this "ten guilty men" stuff in it?

― goole, Friday, April 13, 2012 3:46 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's from the book description for goldberg's the tyranny of cliches

Christie has the aura of a bona fide national sensation

I want to break several personal rules about not being weightist because the substitution jokes are just too easy

well I gotta admit I read that sentence as "beef steak national sensation"

yeah i felt guilty (for a second) about typing "fat ass" but Christie's dishonesty about the transit project is breathtaking and infuriating. i.e. NJ would've shouldered 15% of the construction costs not 70% as he claimed. the NJ-NY commuters I know are so mad about this. Reading Paul Krugman this AM I actually wondered "NRO has been hyping this guy so hard how will they defend him" - nothing like a little sideshow to distract those grizzled NJ voters.

If Christie becomes the VP candidate he'll really leave his state in a mess.

Christie today is similar to the union-fighting rookie governor who took office in January 2010, but he’s visibly grown into the role.

the weight joeks are too easy but sheesh

"Moreover, I fear that Mark Steyn is right in saying that Derb’s departure will further narrow the already narrow limits of acceptable debate in American intellectual life."

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/296004/derb-and-discourse-john-osullivan

er, isn't the whole idea that open racism should not be an acceptable part of "debate in American intellectual life"? But this NRO commentator seems to think open racism ought to be intellectually acceptable? Get a brane, moran.

this comment about how norman mailer's killed more blacks than the klan is a jewel:

I say that the cultivation, by the Left, of a cultural theme that the only authentic black man is a hostile and aggressive one (this goes back to when all the radical-chic liberals were eating up Frantz Fanon and the original version of Malcolm X), has caused more black blood to be spilled than all the Klansmen who ever wore stupid hats. The grinning, shuffling Stepin Fetchit stereotype had to go, but replacing it with the image of the black man as heroic bada** did unspeakable evil. You see, bad men are lazy. (Vices tend to come in multi-packs.) Excuse a man in taking pleasure in hostility and aggressiveness, and he quickly stops limiting the focus of his aggression on the oppressor. It's much easier to victimize the guy next door. Which he does, to the number of several thousand dead every year.

heroic bada

the right was so much more enamored of the kinder, gentler black radical in those days. king, baldwin, they couldn't get enough of those guys!

Perhaps that commentator doesn't realize that black-on-black crime was so trivial in the eyes of the authorities before the 1960s that looking back now it has become all but invisible. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, etc.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/296135/i-personally-and-my-administration-s-position-legalization-not-answer-veronique-de-rug

comment from one Rocket_J_Squirrel is really something

Since when is ending the war on drugs a right-wing position? I'm so confused.

well it's a libertarian one and de rugy is one of their house libertarians

Bill Wilde
04/16/12 13:58

President Obama's hypocrisy on this issue is mind bending. Apparently he has no problem putting people in jail for doing something that he himself did on a regular basis for years. Cordially, Bill

as for Rocket_J_Squirrel's analogy: I have to park next to a group of kids who are always smoking Broncos and fixing their cars. Guess we should call for the abolition of kids, cigs, and cars for sullying the neighborhood.

We will be rid of our laws against drugs and prostitution when the American population is as culturally indifferent to drugs and prostitution as are the people of Amsterdam. But guess what? Outside of a few 50-year-olds wearing leather jackets, most Americans don't want anything to do with Amsterdam, which is why we have different laws.

viva las vegas

The Corner watches Mad Men!.

Pete may not commit suicide, just as America did not commit suicide in the traumatic period that began with the Sixties.

This is reminding me so much of all of the bad essays I've helped students with this week.

lol

I think someone just programmed a chat-bot that processes random input from news and pop-culture through a cascade of simple ideological filters--and named it NRO.

Read the comments!

[Approved commenter] kreminitly
04/20/12 10:44

He's going to commit suicide with a .22 ? The guy just can't do anything right.

Our friends are crowing over this Pew poll:

The Pew survey adds to a wave of surveys and studies showing that GOP-sympathizers are better informed, more intellectually consistent, more open-minded, more empathetic and more receptive to criticism than their fellow Americans who support the Democratic Party.

“Republicans fare substantially better than Democrats on several questions in the survey, as is typically the case in surveys about political knowledge,” said the study, which noted that Democrats outscored Republicans on five questions by an average of 4.6 percent.

The widest partisan gap in the survey came in at 30 points when only 46 percent of Democrats — but 76 percent of Republicans —- correctly described the GOP as “the party generally more supportive of reducing the size of federal government.”

The widest difference that favored Democrats was only 8 percent, when 59 percent of Republicans and 67 percent of Democrats recognized the liberal party as “more [supportive] of reducing the defense budget.”

The survey quizzed 1,000 people, including 239 Republicans and 334 Democrats.

However, Pew’s data suggests that the Democrats’ low average rating likely is a consequence of its bipolar political coalition, which combines well-credentialed post-graduate progressives who score well in quizzes with a much larger number of poorly educated supporters, who score badly.

For example, the survey reported that 90 percent of college grads recognized the GOP as the party most supportive of cutting the federal government. But that number fell to 54 percent of people with a high-school education or less.

In contrast, the Republican party coalition is more consistent, and has few poorly educated people and fewer post-graduates.

The widest partisan gap in the survey came in at 30 points when only 46 percent of Democrats — but 76 percent of Republicans —- correctly described the GOP as “the party generally more supportive of reducing the size of federal government.”

haha what kind of question (and answer!) is this