Benedict becomes first pope to visit American synagogue - Yahoo! News

Pope Benedict XVI became the first pope to visit an American synagogue Friday, bringing greetings for the Passover holiday and accepting gifts of matzo and a seder plate. Benedict, 81, stopped briefly at Park East Synagogue on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, near the Vatican residence.

I’m not a Papist by any stretch, but I find this beautiful. I really do wish for myself this level of grace and peace.

U.S. streets could soon be overrun with cats if communities fail to get a handle on growing feline populations, a veterinary medicine researcher says.

Cats, they say. Get that? Cats.

I’ve got enough ammo in reach of my only moderately-long arms to wipe out the entire feline population of my mile-long block. If I walk to the garage, I think I would find enough to wipe out the entire population of stupid cats in all of Hollywood Park all by myself, and that’s before I get to the sniper ammo. Not that I want to, of course — in one sense, I like cats because they are killing machines, unbounded by our petty human concerns of the beauty of the bird or the mouse or the lizard. OK, that’s the only sense in which I like cats, but I do have a certain respect for their voracious zombie-like killing ability.

So, I think, without thinking too hard, that we can get a handle on the damn cats. If needed. At least here in Texas. You kids in DC, you’re on your own.

Alan Sullivan

Again we see China building its links to an ugly regime. Why? Zimbabwe is not a prospect for participation in a future Shanghai Cooperation Organization war against the West. This Chinese mischief is not calculated to tweak the US, or even Britain. It is part of a long-term plan to exploit Africa as an economic colony of China.

That surpasses all as the most interesting thing I read today. It’s about the ChiComms running guns to a African dictator. Sound the least bit familiar? The students of Mao learned well from his teacher.

Precisely nothing a Commie could do to coalesce power will ever really be surprising, I guess. One hopes for better, but one is regularly disappointed. No reason to stop hoping, though.

The self-important grandiosity of the press will never not stagger me, I guess:

“[O]ne of the things we do in the story is we say there needs to be an effort along the lines of preparing for World War II to combat global warming and climate change,” Stengel said. “It seems to me that this is an issue that is very popular with the voters, makes a lot of sense to them and a candidate who can actually bundle it up in some grand way and say, ‘Look, we need a national and international Manhattan Project to solve this problem and my candidacy involves that.’ I don’t understand why they don’t do that.”

Never mind all the science that shows that any warming stopped in 1998, and we’ve been getting cooler over the last ten years.
This will be one of those magazine covers our grandkids hold up while giggling about our stupidity.

Via FunAm, the self-deluding conservative. Tom, of course, is bothered mostly by Michael Savage re-run and the Iwo Jima veterans who are bothered by the use of an iconic image to promote junk science and sell a bit of paper and ink that’s mostly irrelevant anyway. Nothing like ridiculing angry old vets, right, Tom?

The Stars can eliminate the reigning Stanley Cup champions in Game 5 in Anaheim on Friday night. Dallas already is 2-0 in that building this series.

This is the biggest reason I hate being in South Texas. It’s stone-cold guaranteed that I won’t be able to watch this game.