Here's a clue by four

[docwebster]

Membership in the Hitler Youth was compulsory and the man deserted the army at age 17.

I'm not saying sprinkle rose petals in his path and cry "allelujia"(sp?), but get your heads out of your behinds and maybe pick something besides that to villify him for.

Or you could - here's a wild thought - wait for the man to actually be in office more than a few hours before getting out the tar and feathers? Believe me, I'll be right there in line with you if he starts mucking up.

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[mcsnee.livejournal.com]

I heard a rumor that he's the anonymous goatse photo subject...

[stypica.livejournal.com]

kirk johnson is the new pope! scaaaary, yet pretty amusing..


"what do i do with this big phallic hat - OH! *I* know!"

[rpmcmurphy.livejournal.com]

Memberships was compulsory and he did get a dispensation to leave the Hitler Youth. The question, then, is why, two years later, was he manning an anti-aircraft gun over a BMW factory for the Nazis and then shipped to Hungary where he set up tank traps?

[docwebster.livejournal.com]

Excuse me for asking, but who the heck are you?

[docwebster.livejournal.com]

For that matter, where are you getting these things he supposedly did?

[stypica.livejournal.com]

there's this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Cardinal_Ratzinger

but who knows where that info comes from.

Being in the army on the losing side of a war is a whole lot different than being a nazi, imho.

[dirtynumbangel.livejournal.com]

Because it was Germany, he was a German citizen, and he was drafted into the Army? Which he later deserted?

Psheesh.

[pernishus.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Doc -- I've always known you to give folks a fair chance, and I admire you very much for it.

[midnightmadness.livejournal.com]

Oh, this guy has a shopping list of issues and transgressions to pick from... I never thought that a situation where being a member of the Hitler Youth could be considered one of the "minor a/o forgivable" of the questionable actions.

I take it this means...

[murphymom.livejournal.com]

"Habemus papam" (FSVO of "we").

Re: I take it this means...

[docwebster.livejournal.com]

Beg pardon? I speaketh not Latin.

Re: I take it this means...

[murphymom.livejournal.com]

The traditional phrase announcing the election - literally translated "We have a pope."

Re: I take it this means...

[docwebster.livejournal.com]

Ah. Thankyew.

[isomeme.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, but a man who was both a Nazi soldier and the leader of the (renamed) Holy Office of the Inquisition sets off my fish-in-a-barrel reflexes. Time will tell how he actually performs, as you say.

[ohsweetnothin.livejournal.com]

he is the most conservative asshole. ever.

[inkmistress.livejournal.com]

He's a Sith!





The trailers for episode III have me all atingle!

[dirtynumbangel.livejournal.com]

'Allelujia' is probably a perfectly fine way to spell it. I believe that Hallelujah (the usual spelling) is from hebrew.. so, pre-Dogesh, it would be spelled (roughly, and reading from right-to-left) Aleph-Yod-Vav-Lamed-Aleph-Lamed-Aleph-Heh. That's my guess, anyway. Point being, anything that touches on those phonemes would be an acceptable way to transliterate :)