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21 Tuesday Sep 2010

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Ramon: What this is about is a big country,
the United States…

…making war on a little country.

Ted: In the US government’s view,
which I’m not in any way endorsing…

…the US policy is… (notices some ants on the ground nearby)

Maybe this will help. Take these ants.

In the US view, a small group,
or cadre, of fierce red ants…

…have taken power and are oppressing
the black ant majority.

The stated US policy
is to aid those black ants…

…opposing the red ants,
in hopes of restoring democracy…

…and to stop the red ants from assisting
comrades in neighboring ant colonies.

Ramon: That is the clearest and most disgusting
description of US policy I’ve ever heard.

The Third World is just a lot of ants to you.

Ramon’s Friend: Those are people dying, not ants!

Ted: You don’t understand.
I was reducing everything to ant scale– the US included. An ant White House…

…an ant CIA, an ant Congress,
an ant Pentagon.

Ramon: Secret ant landing strips…

…illegally established on foreign soil.

Fred: – Where are the red ants?

Ted: – There.

(Fred grabs a large rock and smashes ants)

(Later, at the car…)

Ted: – That was terrible.


Fred: – You’re blowing it way out of proportion.

Those red ants were bad news.
They weren’t good for anybody.

Ted: I was trying to convince them
to look at Americans in a new way.

Then, in one stupid move,
you confirm their worst assumptions.

Fred: I didn’t confirm them,
I
am their worst assumption.


–Barcelona

Better Gifts than CDs of the Leader’s Speeches

21 Tuesday Sep 2010

Posted by thetimman in General Catholic News/Opinion

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Maybe the occupant of the White House can take a lesson in thoughtful gift-giving between heads of state by checking out the gifts exchanged by the Holy Father and Queen Elizabeth II:


Pope and Queen exchange gifts
Sep 16 2010

The Queen and the Pope exchanged gifts at a reception at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh today.

The Pontiff received from the monarch a facsimile edition of 16th century drawings by German artist Hans Holbein the Younger.

The 85 sketches were encased in a white papal binding specially produced by conservation staff at Windsor Castle.

Including a portrait of Sir John More, the pictures are considered among the greatest treasures in the Print Room at Windsor Castle.

The Vatican’s gift to the Queen was a copy of the Lorsch Gospels dating from 778 to 820.

The gifts were exchanged in the Morning Drawing Room and a private audience with the Queen followed at which the Duke of Edinburgh was also present. […]

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