In Honor of the New German Pope Being Elected....

[CO Liberal]

...The Princess called me earlier and asked me to pick up brats and sauerkraut for dinner tonight.

How are others marking the occasion????

[ewagner]

1. The usual...........

totally ignoring it....

makes no difference to me.

[commander bunnypants]

2. There is a new pope?

Grilled poke chops

[Squatch]

3. I'm going to mass.

There's a special service this evening.

[Pawel K]

9. I will probably have dinner with the family

I don't normally go to chruch for my own reasons but this is still a big deal to me and my family.

[agingdem]

4. Goose-stepping to Mein Kampf!

[Emops]

10. I'm trying to resist the urge to sing

"It's springtime for Ratzinger and the Vatican...
Winter for women and gays..."
:)

[jody]

5. I'm going to stop by your home for dinner. I love brats and sauerkraut!

:hi:
Jody

[CO Liberal]

6. JODY!!!!!

How the hell have you been, man????

[the Princess]

11. C'mon by.........

Any friend of the hubby is a friend of mine! :)

[BurtWorm]

7. I'm being a brat.

And wurst.

[Kellanved]

8. Dude, he is Bavarian

So be sure to drink a Hefeweizen to it. :-(

[CO Liberal]

12. OK -So I'll Get Some Bavarian Cream Donuts

:-)

[Bombtrack]

13. It's really sad that we have a nazi pope

God to think that I couldn't feel any worse as an American living under Bush. Now I'm a Catholic, by heritage atleast, living under a Nazi pope.

[Squatch]

14. He was not a Nazi

[CO Liberal]

15. I Found The Following on Google...

...by searching on {Ratzinger + "Hitler Youth"}. Underlining emphasis is mine.

The son of a rural Bavarian police officer, Ratzinger was six when Hitler came to power in 1933. His father, also called Joseph, was an anti-Nazi whose attempts to rein in Hitler’s Brown Shirts forced the family to move home several times.

In 1937 Ratzinger’s father retired and the family moved to Traunstein, a staunchly Catholic town in Bavaria close to the Führer’s mountain retreat in Berchtesgaden. He joined the Hitler Youth aged 14, shortly after membership was made compulsory in 1941.

He quickly won a dispensation on account of his training at a seminary. “Ratzinger was only briefly a member of the Hitler Youth and not an enthusiastic one,” concluded John Allen, his biographer.

Two years later Ratzinger was enrolled in an anti-aircraft unit that protected a BMW factory making aircraft engines. The workforce included slaves from Dachau concentration camp.

Ratzinger has insisted he never took part in combat or fired a shot — adding that his gun was not even loaded — because of a badly infected finger. He was sent to Hungary, where he set up tank traps and saw Jews being herded to death camps. He deserted in April 1944 and spent a few weeks in a prisoner of war camp.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1572667,00...

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So, we have a deserter in The Vatican - just like we have a deserter in the White House.....

[Squatch]

16. You say that like being a deserter from the Hitler Youth is a bad thing

"So, we have a deserter in The Vatican - just like we have a deserter in the White House..... "

And do you mind if I ask if you're a R Catholic?

[CO Liberal]

21. Read It Again

He deserted from the German Army. Just like Bush deserted from the National Guard.

I'm an ex-Catholic. But I still have the right to criticize the Church. After didn't Martin Luthur continue to speak out agaist the Church after HE left???

[Squatch]

23. And once again, deserting the German Army is a bad thing?

[CO Liberal]

24. No

But SERVING is - as opposed to Pope JPII, who was part of the resistance.

I just have a feeling that more skeletons are hanging in Ratzinger's closet.

[Squatch]

25. Do you know what conscription is?

You do know that he was FORCED to serve, after which time he deserted.

[CO Liberal]

29. And You DO Know....

...that you seem to be able to find a way to argue with most everything I post lately. :shrug:

[Squatch]

30. You responded to me.

LOL

:shrug:

[CO Liberal]

31. And You Argued

[Name removed]

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[ScreamingMeemie]

17. Soccer practice and Civil Air Patrol.

One much enjoyed by Mama...One much loathed by Mama. Guess which is which. :hi:

[Goathead]

18. Think I will snuggle up with a good book

Rise and Fall of the Third Reich sounds about right. Oh, make that Rise and Fall and Rise of the Third Reich

[JVS]

19. Eine Mass bayerischer Gerstensaft, oder klar gesagt: BIER

[Squatch]

22. Du sollst die Bieren der Brauerei Konig von Flandern probieren

wenn du am naechstem Mal in Augsburg bist.

[JVS]

26. Habe schon mal getrunken. Es hat geschmeckt.

Vielleicht soll ich nur Salvator trinken, du weisst, in Namen des Vaters, des Sohnes und des heiligen (auch Himbeer-) Geistes.

[Squatch]

27. Aaaaaa---mennnnn. (Schluck!)

[xmas74]

20. Damn that sounds good!

If I make it out to your area tonight (no chance of that) can I join you?

[northzax]

28. oh, the usual

gonna go have hot gay sex (using a condom, of course) and then personally abort some fetuses.