Ratzi the Rebel

[izmeina]

I never thought I would see the day of having something good to say about a certain Benedict XVI alias one Josef Ratzinger

Way back in April 2005 when the position last became vacant was hoping that God's Rottweiler would get the job. For entertainment value as much as his uncanny resemblance to a certain Star Wars senator. It seems that the Machievellian monster had a cute and cuddly side after all. He was a bit old fashioned but it was not quite the Spanish Inquisition that I'd been expecting (and secretly hoping for)
It turns out that he was not on a power trip after all. Otherwise they would have to snatch the prize out of his cold dead hands. But here he is giving it away. That truly takes humility and wisdom

Now why would an agnostic pagan give a Ratzi's arse about who has got the top job in the Vatican? Aside from having been brought up on the Dark Side, all the Papal history is a veritable feast of political intrigue. It's got all the ingredients for lots of juicy conspiracy theories too. Smells, bells, smoke, lots of shonky behind the scenes deals and conspiracies aplenty. What's not to love?

Only a conservative could be so radical. But the real reason the serpent is so so excited is quite simple. Not making any predictions like last time but purely wishful thinking. It would be worth doing deals with the devil if that's what it takes to get George the job. Pell for Pope. It would be just perfect
All those nasty horrid political satirists would be out of a job. It would be up there with Henry Kissinger or Barack Obama getting the Nobel Peace Prize

Looks like there's lots of Aussies out there waving the flag and patriotically promoting Cardinal Pell as positively the perfect candidate for Pope

Richard Dawkins would be ever so delighted. It would make his atheistic mission ever so easier and the whole world would get to see the wonders of Pell's marvelously profound and logical mind

Oh and while on the subject of Rottweilers and things German here's a cute little snippet found while lurking in Radio National land

'Wie Geht's, Y'all!'

Izzie loves the Texan accent and once again it wins hands down in this linguistic showdown

Had always thought that all the ethnic Germans in the USA lived around Pennsylvania and the 13 colonies. Looks like they got around. Must got check out the German Ocker accents in the Barossa Valley. Maybe they'd say stuff like 'Wie geht's old mate?

Recently seen a stand up comedian doing a show on "Five steps to being German"
He had to be a fraud as he turned up ten minutes late. But he had lived abroad a long time and had an Irish accent so all was explained
It was seriously politically incorrect and there was lots of Hitler jokes. But that is a tale for another day. But it was infinitely more fun than another excuse for a comedian who spent all his time proving his anti racist credentials but just did not bother being funny.

It is a source of great disappointment that the recent claims by some opposition politician that Julia Gillard's cabinet resembles the scenes of the last days of Downfall did not result in some sick and wicked new parodies.
Izzie could watch them for hours. Bruno Ganz is a genius

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[mamaslyth.livejournal.com]

Germans settled in a lot of other areas after the Revolutionary War - Ohio, Texas, Minnesota, etc. In fact, the largest group of European immigrants was German. Both of my parents were close to half-German and my ex was half-German, along with both of his parents. I'm close to 7/16th German. Around WWI, a lot of people with German last names changed them. Though in the case of my maiden name, it was naturally Anglicized around 1700. It was originally something like "Barngardt" and somehow mutated to "Barncord" and stayed that way for almost 300 years.

[izmeina.livejournal.com]

Maybe it was Baumgarten. There are a lot of typical American names that look obviously of German origin to an insider serpent.
Not sure if it is just folklore or actual truth but there was supposed to have been a vote in the USA at some stage to choose the official language. Some of the nominations included Hebrew but the story goes that German lost to English by only one vote. If that was indeed true and it had gone the other way world history could have been very very different

[ozfille]

I'm not sure that BeneXVI is so meek and mild, Maybe he just doesn't want to be around when another avalanche of priest paedophilia overwhelms the Vatican from a new source not just the Irish Catholic and its diaspora (US, Australia). He spent so much time as Grand Inquisitor stamping on any of the complaints about priests and covering up for priests during his time in the role, maybe he doesn't want to be around when it gets even slimier.

As much as Sydney Catholics may wish Pell gone, I think that Sydney is stuck with him. I remember when he moved up here, Melbourne was so thankful when he left them. He has been sidelined relating to the child abuse enquiry pretty much because he stuffed the spin. He came across as a hard-hearted, legalist, lacking in all compassion and seemingly not in the least sorry for the misdeeds of his fellow priests' heinous actions. He is tainted by association with the child abuse scandal, so it is even more unlikely he would get the nod. And what would we do without his contributions in the Sunday Telegraph on the non-existence of Global Climate Change and a whole range of other topics he is not qualified to talk about and dear Tony, his best friend needs his advice and wisdom to run the country once he becomes the PM, along with all those 1950's based policies that he's released in the last two weeks. But that never stopped him. I didn't watch the Q&A program with him and Dawkins but some people who have seen it, have told me that actually Pell got the better of Dawkins. I shall have to listen to the replay.

[izmeina.livejournal.com]

Only a card carrying member of Opus Dei could possibly believe that Pell scored more than Dawkins in that travesty of a debate. It was all heat and no light.
Had all sorts of horror stories about Pell but this performance was beyond belief. Dawkins wiped the floor with him. Pell put his foot in his mouth just about any time he opened it. Could not believe that the Catholic Church would let this guy out of the house without a minder

Yesss. On hearing of the resignation the first thought of this cynical serpent is that some new revelations about those seedy pedophilia scandals were about to hit the fan and Ratzi wanted to be out of the way when it happens. That's still quite a likely possibility but he also happened to be around when his predecessor did the suffering servant martyr thing and kept the job long after he was physically capable of performing. So it is quite possible that his resignation is 'kosher'

There's been some cute photoshops and captions doing the rounds lately and even one of those Hitler bunker scenes but here's Izzie's favourite



PS I think I have linked to the replay of that Q&A in the original post. It's priceless
But if they wanted to educate rather than entertain the audience they should have brought along the Buddhist monk Ajahn Brahm. He has a degree in theoretical physics and a sense of humour. He was talking on the very subject on Late Night Live and was much more open minded and interesting than that pair of dogmatic fundamentalists