… which describes quite precisely the relationship between strong Pell and weak altar boys during his high-flying clerical career. UD wonders what Richard Dawkins, on the receiving end of Pell’s sermonizing, thinks now of his debate opponent.

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Pell [years ago said]: “Abortion is a worse moral scandal than priests sexually abusing young people.”

… When asked to clarify his position, Pell dug in saying: “Because (abortion) is always a destruction of human life.”

Whereas I’ve always found forcing my cock into the mouths of 13-year-old choir boys quite life-enhancing.

… the very best.

I miss my mum. I know that sounds a bit toddler-ish… Even if I could just see my mum… I would like just a phone call, I don’t know if Britain can do that for me here, but I’d like just a phone call to my mum – it’s been two years. If I could make a request. I’m probably not in a position to make requests. That’s it all, really. I miss my mum.

But my heart belongs to dahdy

This articulation reeks of the kind of stereotypical depiction of Muslim women that has too often permeated Western societies: one of submission, obedience and lack of personal agency.

…. ISIS offered these young women something that recognized their agency. Not just homemakers and housewives, but combatants and propagandists, ISIS recognized that women had a role to play in their state-building project. The journey to jihadism for these women was not about coercion, but rather about participation.

There remains a great urgency to help debunk the myths surrounding how and why women become involved in terrorist activities. From combat roles to suicide bombers, policymakers must recognize women’s agency in terrorist organizations and how gender roles function within groups.

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Details.

And lo for that he hath made fruitful his Von Hügel Institute speech

And hath scattered abroad the word of Allen Jr, Winfield, Thavis, and Wooten

Yea and also the word of Kakutani and Dionne

Upon the beatification of John Paul II he hath made abundant the word of Wooden and Safranski

Verily Rosica so loved the word that likewise he blessed Bustros, McElroy, Reese, Di Noia, Baldisseri, Christiansen, and also Lev, the last a mere woman but even so worthy of his love

It’s a hugely popular sport.

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Why does Saudi Arabia go to such lengths to enslave its women? Given its contempt for them, its insistence on hiding their vileness from sight under veils and in houses, why not follow that instinct out logically and let them go (there’s what UD calls a “Jane Drain” happening there, with lots of high-profile female escapes from the magic kingdom — hence the popularity of the new female-passport-tracking app).

I mean, let’s say roughly ten percent of Saudi women enjoy wearing blankets in the desert, adore being secured under surveillance in their houses and allowed out only under male custody… wouldn’t have it any other way… So … from this population you derive your vaginas and wombs so that sexual pleasure and procreation may proceed. If you need more of this, you import it from countries where there’s a market in women who in exchange for money will throw on all the black shit and go out and rent their uteri.

Know your enemy.

… will go down great with the president’s base, for whom it is one more sign of the oncoming apocalyptic Rapture.

A massive insurance fraud conspiracy; failure to vaccinate or educate their children; systemic welfare benefits theft: UD awaits Lakewood! The Musical as soon as some lyricist gets hold of America’s most pious, most fascinating, municipality.

Pastor Orusa provides.

Maybe it was in part in response to these appalling facts (not to mention systemic welfare fraud in some of these communities), appearing prominently in the New York Times, that the State Board of Education just announced serious new secular education requirements, along with serious penalties (loss of funding; possible closing of schools inspectors find noncompliant) for ignoring them.  It’s one thing for us to watch Israel, a Jewish state, suffer demographic catastrophe because of its enormous, ignorant, and overwhelmingly state-dependent ultra orthodox population; it’s another for our proudly secular nation to underwrite such destructive collective behavior.    (Speaking of which.)

Although the relevant rabbis haven’t quite called Andrew Cuomo Hitler yet, they’re getting there.  And though the whole spectacle is on some level laughable, keep in mind that in Israel the ultra orthodox are quite capable of violence, and we can expect something of the same here as our country attempts to deal with a very angry reactionary force within it.

No.

Sing it.

To sport the anthem raising,
Sing, children, great and small;
Sing out, all rectums hazing,
Praise Football, one and all!
See how our team this year,
Which now is safely ended,
Hath in its love rear-ended
Our children far and near.

O coach and teammates praising
Whose love and grace abound!
Their wondrous anal grazing
Is sung the whole world ’round.
With digit, broom, and pool cue
They pierce our nether hole;
O football we adore thee
Our country’s heart and soul.

… flights.