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Oscar Open Thread

By Larry Johnson on February 24, 2013 at 9:21 PM in Current Affairs

How many of you are watching the Oscar’s tonight? I think Barack Obama deserved to be nominated for best actor. His hysteria and weeping over the last week while pretending “he don’t know nuthin about birthin” that sequester, is truly award winning chutzpah. Now, as I have written previously, Barack did not do this alone. He pulled off this charade with a supporting cast of equally talented flim flam men and women–Harry Reid, John Boehner, Mitch “Mumbles” McConnel and Nancy Pelosi.

These crazy asses want America to believe that simply slowing the rate of growth in the Federal budget–mind you, not a real cut in actual spending, but slowing the rate of growth–will unleash the hounds of economic hell on America. That kind of bullshit is inexcusable but, it is the kind of pretend that one normally associates with actors.

How can Hollywood compete on this stage?

So, back to the fantasy land on the West Coast. Who in your mind deserves best in the various categories? Chat away.

  • Van_Dessel

    Check out the “best propaganda” parody on youtube of the Oscars.

    • http://noquarterusa.net Larry Johnson

      link?

  • nickoury

    Excellent recommendation!

  • HELENK2

    not watching oscars, do not know half the people involved.

    has anyone watched Betty White Off Their Rockers? I am laughing so hard. think I have a new favorite show

    • nickoury

      I haven’t watched the 3 major networks in years, PBS for Nature and a few other programs. Even though White is a sincere animal activist she is, unfortunately, nothing but a zero-loving, leftist-liberal nutcase.
      Tonight’s award’s ending simply reinforces the destructively intrusive results of those who support these foolishly elected/re-elected, classless imbeciles.

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  • jrterrier

    First Lady Michelle Obama at the White House presenting the winner of the best movie. WTF??? Cutting into Jack Nicholson’s time. Complete fail.

    It’s good to know that next weekend there may be a lot of laid off people because politicians haven’t been able to figure out the sequester problems.

    • HARP2

      Mooch should have presented for the “best fiction”, since it was close between MSNBC….CNN…ABC…CBS…and NBC.

      • Mark Urbo

        This psychotic, megalomaniac, narcissistic, and far left radical socialist ideologue POS couple…

        ..during the Super Bowl and now the Oscar’s ! WTF !!!

        • DianaLC

          Yes, I’m just waiting for the stereotypical banners of O’s face on building fronts and the statues of O in major cities.
          Then maybe someday some other country can come and stage a planned “spontaneous” uprising and pull those statues down.
          In Hillary’s words, “What difference does it make?”
          I miss my Father Knows Best life.

          • Mark Urbo

            Wait till they are pulling a big inflated balloon of him in the Thanksgiving parade…
            ..same big head with no helium required.

  • nickoury

    Way, way, far too many DUMB AS ROCKS Liberal/Leftist/Progressive voters.

    • elizabethrc

      Amazing that Hollywood doesn’t realize that Conservatives go to the movies too, and that, by alienating that segment as they consistently do, they may soon lose their business.
      Hollywood is a dying enterprise, in spite of the high salaries these stars ‘earn’.
      Their myopia is just hastening their demise.

      • nickoury

        Ha, Conservatives don’t matter.

        Does this help answer your dilemma:
        My response to a comment posted at The Hollywood Reporter that asked:
        “…good lord when the hell [did] we became North Korea?”

        Not just yet, but in a very short while, we will be there, or they will be here.
        It won’t be much longer.
        There’s only 49% left to go, one way or the other.

        The parallels to the 1930′s would be hilarious, or should that be Hillarious, if it weren’t so frighteningly real.
        Does Leni Riefenstahl, the brilliant cinematographer, come to mind? Check
        out the fly-over scenes of any “Without a Trace” episode; originally Leni’s extremely effective technique in her films such as “Triumph of
        the Will”, now used for entertainment, instead of propaganda.

        Hey, rocks for brains supporters, this isn’t a re-remake of “The Producers”, as much as you “hope” or imagine it to be.

      • KenoshaMarge

        Evendently you weren’t the only one noticing the myopia

        From the doyenne of Hollywood bloggers, Nikki Finke, live-blogging the Oscars:

        As if Hanoi Jane wasn’t fuel enough. Oh My God – the Academy actually fans the fire by drafting First Lady Michelle Obama to help present Best Picture from presumably the White House?

        So unnecessary and inappropriate to inject so much politics into the Oscars yet again.

        Hollywood will get pilloried by conservative pundits for arranging this payoff for all the campaign donations it gave the President’s reelection campaign.

        I don’t understand this very obvious attempt to infuriate right-leaning audiences. Clearly the studios only want to sell their movies to only half of America.

  • buzzlatte3

    The Oscars jumped the shark with First Wighat’s appearance. Hollywood Reporter comments overwhelmingly negative. Her appearance already buried to one sentence on AP. People are sick to the core of the Obamas.

    • elizabethrc

      Someone made note that her bangs were getting so long soon her face will be completely covered.
      As Martha Stewart is so fond of saying, “That’s a good thing”.

      • getfitnow

        Cousin IT!

        • nickoury

          That would be Cousin Itt, with two “T’s.” Unless you mean to imply Information Technology, which I seriously doubt.

          ‘

  • DianaLC

    It’s morning as I type. I’ve become so disassociated from mainstream life in America lately. Somehow I just can’t connect to concerns about fancy dresses, new hairstyles, modern so-called drama, etc. I watch mostly some of the newer science fiction shows. I am so sad that Fringe is finished.

    Instead, I spent some time yesterday studying Euripides’ “Suppliant Women.” It has a well-known scene featuring Theseus arguing with the Messenger from Thebes about the relative merits of a democratic as opposed to a monarchic government. The audiences in those days loved to hear well-thought out debates on an issue. Imagine that happening nowadays instead of the histrionics that go in in most legislative bodies today. It examines the important question of when and why a country (city state in those days) should intervene in another country’s affairs.

    In this case Athens had chosen to intervene on behalf of the mothers of the famous “Seven Against Thebes” in order to win for them the right to bury their dead sons after Argos’ leader had botched the attempt to help Polyneices overthrow his brother Eteocles in Thebes.

    It would have been far better for MEchelle and her girls’ father to have been reading what I did rather than watching that spectacle in honor of what Thornsten Veblen labeled “conspicuous consumption” and of the Leisure class in Hollywood. Heck it should have been homework assigned to those idiots in D.C. who call themselves our leaders.

    OOPS! I guess first they would all have to get past their naval gazing and look outside of their famous selves. The Greeks at the time still believed in their gods and in their own dependencey on the good will of the gods. We have, sadly, given up worrying about how God might be judging our behavior.

    • driguana

      Enjoyed your comments. Yes, there is definitely a Greek tragedy aspect to our times. The actors strut their stuff speaking half-truths of illusion while we, the chorus, keep whispering to them to pay attention to reality.

      • DianaLC

        Thanks!

        At least the main characters in Euripides could provide logical and well-thought-out arguments for their points of view.

        I’m thinking the play/movie I remember that might have more connection to our time, just as it did in the 60s, is “The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade.”
        Another popular theatrical genre of the 60s that fits it the Theater of the Absurd.
        In any case, modern Hollywood creations really are not much more than razzle-dazzle pieces, even when they attemp to be serious.

  • KenoshaMarge

    I stopped watching, or caring about the Oscars years ago. About the time Marlon Brando pulled his political stunt.

    Watching these phonies, mostly liberals who advocate higher taxes for the rest of us while doing their best to pay less on their exorbitant salaries nauseates me.

    The amount spent on gowns and jewels for this over-the-top extravaganza could fund a lot of homeless shelters or pay for more than a few scholarships. Such excess is, in these times, ah, excessive.
    Mooch showed up? Boring.

    • foxyladi14

      AMEN Marge Amen.

    • getfitnow

      I read someone refer to the Oscars as “a self-licking ice cream cone.” Yeh, that sums it up nicely.

      The last show I watched (can’t remember the year) Isaac Hayes’ Shaft won best music. The entire album is great and holds up today.

      RIP Black Moses.

  • HELENK2

    dictatorship of hypocrites. the best description of the progressives I have read in a long while

  • HELENK2

    http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/02/good-grief-john-kerry-makes-up-imaginary-country-during-first-international-tour-video/

    the present US government gets more embarrassing every day.

    I can picture all the anti _American mentors that taught backtrack and those who must hate America that put him in the position to do the most harm laughing their a$$es off at what has happened to this country

    • nickoury

      What a horribly sad truth.

  • HELENK2

    http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/biden-americans-no-longer-worried-about-economy_703222.html

    either joey gaffes is taking some powerful meds or the swamp gas in DC is getting to him

  • HELENK2

    http://weaselzippers.us/2013/02/25/obama-linked-think-tank-blames-arab-spring-on-global-warming/

    backtrack linked think tank( now there is an oxymoron) links Arab Spring to global warming

  • HELENK2
  • HELENK2

    http://althouse.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-completely-inappropriate-use-of.html

    inappropriate use of the military.
    read the comments

  • HELENK2

    http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/state-investigation-launched-after-students-dress-in-burqas.html

    maybe with high unemployment, parents can take more time to be involved in their kid’s school. educating seems to be getting lost to indoctrinating

    • DianaLC

      I remember when I lived in a pretty fundamentalist Christian small town and was teaching in the public schools. Many of the teachers avoided doing a section of the curriculum for ninth grade students on Classical mythology because they did not want to deal with angry Christian parents about it.

      I taught the lessons because I love the study of Classical mythology, while still being Christian. It is something that is found in allusions throughout all of our Western (meaning not Eastern/Asian/Oriental) literature. C.S. Lewis, afterall, was an unbeliever who became Christian, but his first field was in the classical studies.

      I never had a problem with parents because I taught the subject as a subject. I didn’t PREACH the subject. That is the difference. So many young and inexperienced teachers don’t understand the difference between that point. They’re so used to “preaching” social engineering dogma that they don’t understand how to study something objectively and then allow the students’ minds to do the analysis.

      I am, however, always so surprised at how little parents do know of what is going on in their childrens’ classrooms. When the large district I last taught in finally went to a web-based gradebook system that finally allowed parents to obtain passwords so they could check the progress of their children in each of their classrooms, I was totally disgusted by the resistance of the teachers to such a thing. What they really didn’t want was for parents to see how disorganized their teaching really is in many cases.

      I used it as a way for those bedraggled and busy parents to be able to tell when their child is lying (which is usually the case) if he or she tells them he/she is doing o.k. and doesn’t have homework. It allowed me to actually also post assignments that could be downloaded by the parents. That way a child couldn’t claim he/she “lost” the assignment. They could see what was due, what the student had failed to turn in, etc. And, yes, it meant that the parents got to see what kind of assignments I was giving, something I was most definitely not worried about.

      Parents usually do want this kind of access, but have busy lives and many school systems and teachers make it impossible to keep on top of their childrens’ progress and school work.

  • foxyladi14

    Why was Michelle Obama at the Oscars?ANOTHER FIRST??

  • HELENK2

    http://freebeacon.com/farrakhan-endorses-hagel/

    the endorsement that should make Hagel cringe

  • foxyladi14

    The Obama’s agent should really warn them about overexposure.

    But then they wouldn’t listen. lol

    • KenoshaMarge

      Problem there foxy is that their press agents, aka the MSM, are the ones who just can’t get enough. Which is repulsive any way you look at it. The slobbering love affair lives on. And on. And on…

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    • KenoshaMarge

      Of course it doesn’t. It wants another shot at demonizing those evil Republicans. Even obots must be starting to wonder at an Administration that finds more enemies in congress than in the middle-east, China and Russia.
      And meanwhile, China is happily, seemingly effortlessly, hacking away at our secrets. Doesn’t seem like any way to run a railroad or a country.

  • HELENK2

    http://wizbangblog.com/2013/02/18/democrats-want-background-checks-except-when-they-dont/

    background checks

    sometimes the progs want them, sometimes they don’t

  • HELENK2

    I know every one will be just thrilled and think it is just peachy

    backtrack’s paycheck is exempt from the sequester

    http://weaselzippers.us/2013/02/25/good-news-obamas-paycheck-exempted-from-sequester/

  • HELENK2

    http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/d792c648-7f46-11e2-89ed-00144feabdc0.html

    found this article very interesting.
    since backtrack came into office oil imports from the ME has risen.
    curtail drilling here, help his ME buddies get richer

    • DianaLC

      Do you include also Big Al Gore as one of his big ME old friends?

  • HELENK2

    http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/26/us-usa-congress-cia-film-idUSBRE91O19F20130226

    one day after zero dark thirty did not win the oscar, the senate intelligence committee dropped investigation

  • HARP2

    FROM ANOTHER SITE.

    —————————-

    The biggest hypocrisy lies in the fact that Hollywood is wealthy because film and TV is not regulated by the federal government. What if Hollywood was subjected to the same regulations as the oil or pharmaceutical industry? Suppose that before a film can be made, the producers would require a permit from a federal agency that can take years to process. The script would be reviewed to assure compliance with”community ratings” and then put forth into public meetings. Set locations would require an EPA impact study. Government bureaucrats would determine which actors would play which roles to prevent implicit discrimination. Aggrieved interest groups would be offered opportunitiesto sue, even though they have no standing to be harmed. The script
    would be subject to review by psychologists for adverse mental health effects. The historical accuracy would be reviewed against accepted dogma. Edits to dialogue and story line would be inserted by bureaucrats with no experience in writing.

    All of that would require Hollywood to spend millions of dollars in legal and consulting fees just to get the movie permit. Investors may or may not stick with the project since losing money is almost a given. Maybe by the time it is approved it is too late to hold any value if it is a current topic.

    But most of all… who would pay to see a movie that was edited by bureaucrats who would turn a work of money making art into a disaster?

    That is why Hollywood is wealthy — they are free to create any product they wish and only spend enough money to produce it. The end result is what satisfies the creativity and discrimination of talented people without anyone’s boot on their neck.

    Imagine if we all had that freedom.

  • nickoury

    Here’s a sad tale of the current Italian political situation. It is an excellent article on their recent election fallout/failings. But most telling is the underlying similarity of some of the supporters characteristics and the characters directly involved in the outcome. If you want to see the US and its eerily funny future, then read to the end so as not to miss “…adopting a dog named Empathy.”

    I swear, Blake Edwards and Peter Sellers could not write a more convoluted story. This so so far beyond the talentless skills of today’s authors from any genre, SNL, Tarrentino, oh yeah, lets’s not forget the Bobsey twins, Assfleck & Damon.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/berlusconi-revives-political-career-in-chaotic-italian-election/2013/02/25/54f067e0-7f8c-11e2-a350-49866afab584_print.html

  • KenoshaMarge

    Here ya go Larry…

  • getfitnow
    • DianaLC

      I sure wish the kid well. Very uplifting story.

  • HELENK2

    http://www.politico.com/politico44/2013/02/holder-sequester-to-make-americans-less-safe-157885.html

    holder says sequester will make Americans less safe.

    his dept of crime has made Americans less safe
    fast and furious.
    attacking American businesses
    failing to uphold the law in voter fraud – black panthers in Philly

  • HELENK2

    http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/02/25/Beretta-May-Leave-Maryland-Because-Of-Gun-Ban

    Baretta USA may move out of Maryland because of gun ban.
    300 jobs lost

  • HELENK2

    http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/02/26/OFA-Sells-Access-to-President-Obama-for-Anyone-Who-Donates-500k

    OFA sells access to backtrack for anyone who donates $500k.

    Is that the same as a pimp selling a prostitute?

  • HELENK2

    http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/02/25/Obama-Clear-Out-the-Press-So-We-Can-Take-Some-Questions

    backtrack says ” clear out the press, so we can take some questions”
    since the press allowed him to own them, if they are looking for sympathy they can find in the dictionary between shit and syphilis

  • HELENK2

    http://hotair.com/archives/2013/02/26/haley-gop-governors-blast-obama-after-sequester-meeting/

    you gotta love this woman.
    Nikke Haley after governor’s meeting with backtrack

  • HELENK2

    http://hotair.com/archives/2013/02/26/chicago-special-election-primary-today/

    Chicago special election primary today.
    not sure if looking good in stripes is a requirement to be elected to the seat once held by Jesse Jackson Jr

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-Q3ZtWswkA Phaerisee

    As a Catholic and a Christian I have been following the elections in Italy. Most do not realize that the elections will almost certainly have an impact on the next Pope. There is currently an investigation underway that could make the sex abuse and gay blackmail scandals look silly. Many say this is why there is a rush to Conclave before the investigation is complete.

    A girl named Emanuela Orlandi was kidnapped from the Vatican. An anonymous tipster led investigators to an Opus Dei Church which may contain the bones of Orlandi and the mobster who kidnapped her. Currently DNA tests are supposedly being done, but the story seems to have mysteriously disappeared. This was not a batchild tabloid story either. It was in the major papers.

    When are the DNA Results of the bones found in the Opus Dei Church going to be released? Could we please get them before we rush to conclave? We do not want a Pope associated with kidnapping and scandal.

    • DianaLC

      Keep us informed. This is the first I’ve heard of this scandal really.

      • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-Q3ZtWswkA Phaerisee

        I definitely will. I will be posting about it 101 times in honor of our Lady. I was worried about posting it, but God told me in no uncertain terms that if I did not I would be accountable.

        • DianaLC

          I’ve done some research. This is a fairly old case, as Orlandi disappeared in 1983. I am sorry for this mystery and for the fact that we have no answer to explain what happened to this beautiful young girl. But it appears to me that it is one of those cases that may never be solved because of too much incompetence and corruption. It’s been long enough that they could release the DNA results. One of the articles I read indicated that the bones were of the mobster who was trying to get money back from the bank. And that link might be that her parent worked for the bank–who knows.
          I feel sorry that you want so badly for this to be cleared up, but I have little hope that it will be cleared up before they move forward to pick a new Pope.

          • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-Q3ZtWswkA Phaerisee

            I promised I would keep you posted :) It is actually a current story now because the DNA was just recently submitted. I will be more clear in future posts. I am trying to get the DNA results released before the Conclave so I can defend my church against future scandal.

            • DianaLC

              Thank you for the update. I look forward to hearing more.

              • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-Q3ZtWswkA Phaerisee

                Hi Diane :) I put my last update on the main thread a day or two ago. I wanted to personally let you know. Now it is all in God’s hands! Thanks for caring!

  • HELENK2

    http://129.164.179.22/apod/ap130226.html

    for no other reason than , I thought it was amazing

  • HELENK2

    http://weaselzippers.us/2013/02/26/gao-report-finds-obamacare-will-add-6-2-trillion-to-the-deficit/

    GAO report: obamacare will add $6.2 TRILLION to the deficit

    remember
    you have to pass it to find out what is in it. SURPRISE

  • HELENK2
  • HELENK2

    http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/bre91p0dm-us-palestinians-israel-kerry/

    no backtrack peace plan for Israel and Palestinians per Kerry

  • HELENK2

    http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/02/26/barack-obama-pulls-a-move-almost-worthy-of-saddam-hussein/

    backtrack pulls a move almost worthy of saddam hussein
    releases scores of illegals into the country

    • getfitnow

      Otherwise known as future Democrat voters.

      Elections have consequences.

  • HELENK2

    http://pjmedia.com/victordavishanson/explaining-the-inexplicable/?singlepage=true

    really good article by victor davis hanson
    explaining the inexplicable

  • HELENK2

    http://pjmedia.com/blog/lawmakers-determined-to-override-obamas-workplace-violence-classification-of-fort-hood/

    I am so glad that someone is trying to do something about this.
    lawmakers determined to override backtrack’s workplace violence classification of Fort Hood

  • HELENK2

    http://thehill.com/blogs/global-affairs/middle-east-north-africa/284923-biden-to-address-israel-lobby

    they are having joey gaffes address Israel lobby before backtrack’s trip to Israel.

    we do live in interesting times

  • HELENK2

    http://nation.foxnews.com/george-soros/2013/02/26/soros-group-wants-eviscerate-gop

    soros group wants to eviscerate GOP

    he is not good for my country

  • HELENK2

    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/02/25/guess-which-popular-republican-governor-was-not-invited-to-speak-at-cpac/#

    Chris Christi not invited to speak at CPAC

    backtrack’s kiss of death syndrome?

    • getfitnow

      Ya think? I see he’s buying into the Obamacare Medicaid expansion for NJ.

  • HELENK2

    http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/53286

    the fool who follows

    WOW this guy takes no prisoners

  • HELENK2
    • getfitnow

      He’s a disaster. Thanks U.S. Senate.

  • HELENK2

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21548230

    why Afghanistan will not erase opium

  • getfitnow
    • HELENK2

      you know we just could not count. we thought a lot of it was workplace violence

  • HELENK2

    Majority of U.S. Senate votes to confirm ex-Sen. Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense; voting continues – via broadcast

  • shelldoll2

    I’ve been beaten and raped on behalf of my govt. Oscars? Screw you.

  • HELENK2

    http://weaselzippers.us/2013/02/26/minnesota-state-university-names-domestic-left-wing-terrorist-bill-ayers-a-visiting-scholar/

    this turns my stomach.

    isn’t this the same school that had the anti-white poster?

    • DianaLC

      Definitely a clue for parents NOT to help pay for an education there.

  • HELENK2

    tweeted:

    #BREAKING: In a 58-41 vote, the #Senate has approved former Sen. Chuck Hagel as Defense Secretary http://t.co/0SVPVCJeoc #politics

  • HELENK2

    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/feb/26/court-nix-fla-law-drug-testing-welfare-applicants/

    this is bull sh-t. I had to take random drug tests to keep my job

    • DianaLC

      I’m with you on this one.
      My son had to when he served as a Nuke on a submarine. My other son worked where he also had to submit to drug testing, and while he was looking for work, some of the temp jobs required a drug test.
      We are oaften told not to give people begging on the streets money because they’ll just spend it on drugs or liquor. What’s the difference in this case? Ask Hillary.

  • HELENK2
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    http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/02/obamas_sequester_strategy_backfiring.html

    will backtrack’s lapdog media start biting him after being kicked so often?

  • HELENK2

    http://weaselzippers.us/2013/02/26/hamas-muslim-clerics-warn-obama-not-to-visit-temple-mount-during-trip-to-jerusalem/

    first time I remember terrorist telling an American president where he could or could not vist

  • HELENK2
  • Jecolon

    Very funny article…..lol…..No, Larry, I do not look at Oscar night in years. First, George Clooney, who is the worst actor I have ever seen in pictures, said Michelle Obama told him that he was going to get an Oscar………..oh…really? When has in the history of the United States have a First Lady know who are the ones getting in the Oscars?I don’t know about you but I am hating this family more and more. I am over them. Now, I see in the news that Obama is concern about his daughter going on her first date. This guy, who has done more drugs and oral sexual adventures, is concern about the morals of his daughter. Hopefully, the girl does get with child. I will want to see if he will let HER choose to keep it or abort it. I can tell you that her first experience will be locked up like all his sealed records.

  • nannasin smith

    That kind of bullshit is inexcusable.
    IRFP450

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9gKyRmic20 Phaerisee

    Hi guys. I promised I would keep you updated on the Emanuela Orlandi investigation. I made 101 posts in honor of Our Lady. Now it is in God’s hands. The Conclave is this Tuesday. It is probable at this point that we will not see the DNA results on the bones found in the Opus Dei Crypt before Tuesday. I felt as a Catholic I had a duty to my Church to bring this issue to the light of Truth. To not do so would be a sin of omission according to my own theology. We risk future scandal by ignoring this issue. And if we elect a Pope associated with this Prelature the resulting storm could cause a Schism.

    Now all that is left is to pray for the soul of the little girl and the Prelature involved. Thanks for listening and backing me up guys. Every one of us can make a difference, even if we are stuck at home with a handicap, or illness or anything.

  • duoma

    tinyurl.com/cnaff79
    .