Let ’em Eat Cake
One in seven Americans puts food on the table with the help of Food Stamps.
That’s 14 goddamned percent of our brothers and sisters in this holy land.
Without Food Stamps, many millions of our brothers and sisters would go hungry or suffer insufficient nourishment.
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The Republican House leadership, meanwhile, doesn’t give a holy shit about its American brothers and sisters. In fact, the Tea Party-led party doesn’t even consider all Americans to be related to them. Not when so many Americans are brown or black or equipped with ladyparts or, ugh, poor.
As you well know if you’re a loyal reader, I call America a holy land only in the spirit of smart-assedness.
No Poors Allowed
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We are not holy.
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Girls, Ugh!
Speaking of holy, Pope Frankie has made a name for himself as a progressive. Well, relatively so, in comparison to his immediate predecessors and the boys club that constitutes the leadership councils of the Holy Mother Church.
Occupy The Vatican
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He has, for instance, spoken eloquently about the poor and the growing inequality of wealth across the globe, and against war and our “culture of waste.” Cool, so far.
Not long ago, he speculated that atheists who lead good lives might even gain entrance to heaven.
In July, il Papa shrugged and said, “Hey man, who am I to judge? in regard to folks who dig sex with members of, well, their own sex.
Cool again, eh?
But wait, there’s more. A wide-ranging interview with Pope Francis reveals that the successor to St. Peter, the Bishop of Rome, the Vicar of Christ, the rock upon which the Roman Catholic Church stands, and the most powerful man in the world who wears a tiara pronounced that his outfit has become obsessed of late. “We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage, and the use of contraceptive methods…,” he said. “It is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.”
He also added, “I have never been a right winger.”
Wow.
It’s as though good old Jorge Bergoglio is lobbying to become the Michael Moore of the sacred set.
Separated At Birth?
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The Pope is teeing a lot of people off, natch. Anti-abortionists in this holy land at this very moment are searching for evidence that Bergoglio is a socialist, a commie and, for that matter, not even born into the Catholic religion. I misplaced the link but I’m pretty sure someone, somewhere, has accused him of producing a phony baptismal record.
As for the gay thing, well, scads of grown men who have taken vows never to have sex with women and who wear skirts are tut-tutting and wagging their fingers at the Pope. He admits, “I have been reprimanded.”
Nevertheless, he still holds the crozier. Hell, you’d think the Church is a mere rubber-stamp vote away from ordaining women as priests.
Whoa. Not so fast.
Either because he is against the idea or he can read in the tea leaves that his cabinet and the rank and file among the priesthood might rise as one against him were he to come out for the ordination of women, Pope Francis said in the interview that there’s no chance women will become mid-level managers within the Catholic corporation. Unsaid, of course, is the understanding that they’ll never, ever, ever reach the boardroom. “The door,” he said, “is closed.”
Now we know: The worst sin a Catholic can commit is to possess a vagina.
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Woman Is The Nigger Of The World
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