Three firsts for the new Pope: Argentine, Jesuit and his election by fellow cardinals was announced by twitter. Jorge Mario Bergoglio, is a theological conservative with a strong social conscience, and a modest man who declined the archbishop's luxurious residence to live in a simple apartment and travel by public transport. Read full article
Ignore the falklands issue, i'm more concerned on his opinions and plans regarding same sex marriage, corruption, homosexuality, child abuse in the church, women priests, priests celibacy, opening vatican records (historical and financial) to the public... Many, many bigger issues to deal with. Please don't make this another falklands thread, it gets very tiring.
A Dutch pope will never happen, so I have no dog in this fight, but my Brazilian girlfriend says it is a terrible choice ( the've chosen a mobster vs southern european and (hidden) nazi german pedophilia scumbags). Furios that they have chosen an Argentine over a Brazilian that has the most catholics in the world (for now, question is for how long since the Christian Evangelical movement is rising faster then ever).
Anyway, this is now what they talk about in Alternative Media in the US. I suspect, we will hear more about this new pope.
For such an ancient organisation with immense historical archives, I wonder how it will cope with things like Twitter.
@6 Boovis
I'm not really concerned about his views on same sex marriage and homosexuality. The church really doesn't have much influence on civil society in most countries any longer.
The US is still predominantly against both and murders take place in African states regularly because of the same reasons. The Pope could speak out and change all this.
You know, If I was to start listening to “Voices in my head” or saying that ”God has spoken to ( unto me, sorry ) I would be given my own padded cell and a jacket that does up at the back..........
If I go to church and talk to my imaginary friend, and listen to what he has to say then that's ok and entirely “normal”........go figure.....
So the malvanists think the Holy Father is now going to spend his time petitioning for the Falklands to be handed over to Argentina. I think he will.spend his time dealing with pertient issues to the church and it's flock of 1.3bn.
@3 Marcos Alexandro
Thanks for the link. So the new pope is Malvinista! It's a sign from God that the Malvinas are Argentine. First their was Maradonna now there's Pope Francis, the signs are there, definitely. Thank the lord that religion is pure fantasy.
Ahhh the inbreds out in force again. Funny they mention the Pope, when a guy who beheaded 5 or 6 of his wives became HEAD OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND so much for Christian love... LMAO.
P:S: It´s so easy to hammer you boys that it´s becoming a tad boring...
As ever, such a rich Argentinian grasp of history, actually it was two, but hey, since when did the true facts ever get in the way of Argentine claims.
Speaking about the fine “Family Values” of Henry VIII and his small “Pecadillos”....
I couldn't avoid noticing, through all that press coverage during the last couple of weeks ,that many of the senior Kelpers have definitely gained more than a few stones in the last couple of years....
In best Argentinean manner, I demand you eat more veggies and less gravy!
Sad dwarf who knows and can tell the truth, compared to a fact distorting troll, who can lie through her teeth, no suprise there. A national trait, well practiced and encouraged from birth.
Now's the best time for Argentina to push its land grab, with a sympathetic Pope, and a retard in the White House, who thinks Britain should hold talks with Argentina on sovereignty of the Maldives. A malvinista accused of kidnapping children 'elected' head of the Catholic church. No wonder Catholicism's going down the toilet and the evangelicals are expanding in South America... thus the transparent political appointment. Obama’s on the way out and somehow I reckon your Pope won’t be around for very long. Bring it on.
@33 Listen to me “mate”, I brought up the Hernry VIII stuff just to point out how hypocrite you people are. You don´t seem or want to understand that. You guys have your heads so stuck up in your arses that you are quick to talk about almost everything, conveniently forgetting your own crap. Done talking to you.
Jos jedan Publika Pobjeda!!!!
@40 Dawkins a huge disappointment and easy refutable
Galileo was imprisoned YET he remain faithful until the end of his days
Darwin, lost his faith in God because of a traumatic personal experience (think it was due to the lost of his daughter, but can´t remember now).
Btw Catholic Church accepts and do not question the theory of evolution (natural not spiritual) , which is just that, a THEORY.
Of all atheist/agnostic writers, the one who makes most sense is Victor Stenger imo.
The Theory of Gravity is also just a theory but unless you are floating around then it is one that has been well proven - just like the Theory of Evolution.
And how exactly is Dawkins “easily refutable”. All of our emotions, thoughts and dreams are due to the coordinated release of neurotransmitters from cells encoded by DNA passed to us from our ancestors both human and ultmately primate, rodent, fish and microorganism. Darwin excluded man from “On the Origin of Species” not because he didn't realise that's how man evolved but because he knew he would be despised by the religious establishment for it and so he hoped broad-minded people would work out the human implication for themselves. People aren't so scared to speak out nowadays - hence Dawkins.
Yes thanks - we got taught the various religious nursery rhymes at school. But now we have grown up and can think for ourselves we have forgotten them and moved on. Do people in Argentina also challenge the various fairy stories they were taught in school when they grow up?
@44 Doesn´t change the fact that it is a theory.
Regarding Dawkins just read any of Alister McGrath´s books.
Apart from the so call selfish gen, Dawkins goes into a rant against religions blaming them for everything is wrong in this world, as if people did not and still do kill each other for politics, power, etc. Even because of sport rivalry I might add.
The vast majority of Brits have moved on from superstitions like religion, and most of the rest are wary of catholics, because most are loyal to Britain, not to some Italian/ Argentinian foreigner. I am an atheist and I think religion is at the root of most wars, conflicts and sorrow. Just because I am atheist doesn't mean that I have no code to live by, many religions have good codes. But Catholicism is a particularly odious faith, it supresses half the population based on sex, opposes contraception, opposes homosexuality, opposes abortion and would take us all back to the dark ages given half a chance. What's more, this guy is at the head of the queue for all these evils. If there is anything that us Aetheists can join, its The Brights, a breath of fresh air in a very superstitious (and in many places including the US, backward), world
No, evolution is a proven fact. Your latter point shows that you have missed the entire point of what Dawkins is saying. We are fundamentally tribal because our genes and memes make and keep us so. Religion, football and politics etc are just extensions of those tribal battles. In evolutionary terms, people who nurture their children are more reproductively successful than those who let them fend for themselves - therefore nurturing behaviour gets selected for. Its just oxytocin that makes us do it, the same hormone that makes any mammal bond with its young. Don't kid yourself that we are special. So when you have a go at us Brits for our supposed arrogance, just bear in mind it was a Brit who showed the world that none of us are any more special than a rat or a dog.
Trolls, the Guardian and the Independent are very low circulation , less than 200,000 . They are recognised as limp wristed 'wimp' papers with no influence at all.
Yes, our country welcomes all sorts from vegetable pickers to brain surgeons, as long as they are willing to work. We don't restrict foreigners to the villas to struggle as cartoneros like you do.
Most of you are guests of various EU countries as you try to escape the poverty and crime of Argentina. However much you have been brainwashed from birth you must have grave doubts nagging away at your hearts.
If you want to quote press quote influential newspapers.
Errr sorry but was it me the one quoting from “the daily mash” and stating that it was “Far more entertaining and closer to the truth”.
Barking up at the wrong tree mate..
Regarding me I am no guest in Europe since I was born here from european parents, just happens that I ve lived in Argieland for some years. And no, I aint of no Spanish/italian background just slavic and germanic ;
According to you all people from those countries are more than welcomed right? That´s odd because I have been reading on the Daily Mail for a week at leat (is it influential enough for you) how these people were coming to Britain to abuse the system and so on. Anyway your problem not mine. Just proves your hypocresy once more.
No. That was me. You know that the Daily Mash is satire don't you?
And you've been reading the Daily Mail for a week?
That would explain the frothing at the mouth and the incomprehensible drivel then. Is it influential enough? No. It isn't influential at all. C-minus. Must try a whole lot harder than this you fraction of an individual.
@57 So, you base your opinions on satirical papers and then refer to them as “ closer to the truth”? Boy you are a piece of work...
“And you've been reading the Daily Mail for a week?” I just pointed out that the news about the romanians and bulgarians were delivered on a daily basis by the tabloid for at least a week. You seem to have limited comprehension skills.
At least this fraction of an individual can understand basic english you little bitter mousekin...
Hahaha, we call the Daily Mail the Daily Fascist in our house. It's an extreme right wing rag beloved by Colonel Blimps and racists and laughed at by the vast majority. Should be great reading for someone from Argentina and all other lovers of Franco, Mussolini and Hitler! We don't seek to prove hypocracy, we just like taunting hypocrites...
If you are talking about Iraq, 2 million British people marched on the streets of London to oppose the war, the biggest ever demo in the history of our country. And, Blair is branded as a war criminal by the vast majority. The same goes for Afghanistan. As for the Chagos that's just hyperbole dreamed up by your people. There is no better place than Britain, and British culture is best which is why it needs to be protected and fostered. If you had travelled to all corners of the world you would know that.
Sorry. My bad. You'd need a sense of humour to understand that one.
Listen chap you're getting delusional. La Campora might think you're the best of the best but their standards are pretty poor and in the real world the ability to string a couple of grunts together does not make an animal sentient.
Keep banging those pots together though, I am sure you'll get there eventually.
Well, it might be great reading for an Argie, but it happens that it still is a british tabloid right? BTW you are telling me that since DM, the Sun, etc are fascist tabloids, my conclusion is that fascism is alive and well in Britain with thousands of people swallowing their garbage everyday. If only Oswie Mosley would be around to see this...
I wouldn't say that but you are a knob so I suppose you would. It is alive, yes, but it isn't well. We have far too much fun slapping it own. In the same way we like slap down throbbers like you. It is a national sport.
Daily Mail readers? Sun readers? We have a name for them. Knobs and throbbers and the people think they are the beating heart of British public opinion. That will be you Pesky. That will be you. Tw@t.
@64 Furry ol' boy you are seriously losing the plot here mate, just calm down, take a deep breath and repeat with: Las malvinas son argentinas.
Feel better now? Good
My question is: how is it that you have some many fascist tabloids if there weren't any fascist readers...sure La Campora and KKristina must be behind funding them. Makes a lot of sense to me.
@67 Furious Fatty
Are you planning to answer me the question anytime soon?
How is it that you have so many fascist tabloids if there weren't any fascist readers. Is it La Campora and KKristina behind those, funding them.
Ha! It is you! Guzz mate I've missed you! It's me. War Monkey. We used to be muckers remember?
Anyway. To your question. Erm? Dunno? Maybe there are racist fascist readers it wouldn't surprise me you find the buggers everywhere you go. They were all over East Falkland in 1982. Some of them spoke Welsh with a South American accent which was a bit freaky.
Argentina, no, South America. The place is crawling with them. The UK? Yes I've met a few but they tend to hide under rocks. That said, I know a few people who read those rags for a laugh or because there is bugger all else to read. I say read but, well, you know what mean as you have confessed to being a reader yourself. Sorry. Did that answer your question?
No you did not, but anyway I will just let it go, since it's obvious you cannot give me a better answer.
Back to Guzz I don't know who the heck he is. Sorry but I don't think we have ever met each other.
Okay. Sorry my mistake. Look I'm sorry I have read your post several times and I can't really see a question.
“How is it that you have so many fascist tabloids if there weren't any fascist readers. Is it La Campora and KKristina behind those, funding them.”
Well it's not really a question is it because you lead with the assumption that there are a lot of tabloid news papers in Britain. But what are you comparing it to? Italian tabloids? Spanish?, Brazilian? You see you have posed a leading question without any context which is what propagandists do and I usually make a point not to answer. They are not questions. They are troll posts and in your own way you have answered it yourself.
If you want a question answered ask a question, don't try to dress an opinion up as a question and bitch when nobody answers you.
“How is it that you have so many fascist tabloids if there weren't any fascist readers. Who is funding them? How do they survive, day after day, week after week?
Does it sound better now? Comprendes ingles amigo?
P.S. What I posted before was a Logical statement, but you don't seem to get it do you?
Pónganse contento que el Papa es Argentino como todos ustedes en las islas Malvinas. Dios esta de nuestro lado y no hay armas mas poderosas que eso. amén
Firstly the legal framework that these tabloids operate in have to allow them to operate yes? That would be free press regulation then. Easy. If of course they say or do something that infringes the legal framework then action would and indeed has been taken in the past. And don't forget that just because you might disagree with somebody's opinion, it won't make the expression of that opinion illegal.
Secondly there would be the daily readership which would require only a small percentage of the population to make it profitable.
You could not assume that every Sun or Daily mail reader is a right wing fascist (but i do wonder sometimes) and even if they were you could never assume that the whole country was a right wing fascist state. Unless you have an axe to grind in which case your opinion would be moot.
A slimy coward who turns a blind eye when a junta is murdering his fellow countrymen by the thousands doesn't have a conscience ... social or otherwise. He is the scum of the earth.
@75 First things first, I never said all the country was a right wing fascist state or that Great Britain was a fascist state. It just seems to me that if those 2 tabloids are popular enough, it´s because someone reads them right?, That´s all.
The article is excellent. For being honest, i am not happy with bergoglio's designation as the new pope.
During the debates for gay marriage in july of 2010, he compared the aprobation of that law, with a war against god.
On the other hand, the fact that he's seriously suspected of not protecting those two priest during the dictatorship, make me not to be proud of him.
Beside, there are documents which prove that he knew about the babies appropiations, during the dictatorship. Sorry, but i am not happy with the election of this man as the new pope.
On the other hand, gay people like me have never been welcome by the church, so, as long as it continues excluding people wno have always been discriminated and ignored by the different societies around the world, the church will contunue losing more and more devotes.
First, he never turned a blind eye about victims of the Junta, instead fought for them to be released alive. Read Peace Nobel Prize Pérez Esquivel about the hateful libels written by the kirchnerists.
Second, we have already lose a pro-Argentina priest, as Pope he would never allowed himself to be part in our conflict.
In August 2003 the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire elected an openly gay priest, Gene Robinson, as a bishop. This came shortly after a similar controversy in England when a gay priest, Canon Jeffrey John, was appointed to become the Suffragan Bishop of Reading. Eventually, however, John agreed to withdraw in order to avoid division. In 2004, in the aftermath of Robinson's election as bishop, John was installed as Dean of St Albans, the cathedral there being the site of England's first Christian martyr.
However I believe the church requires Gay Priests to be cellebate, which in my opinion is still discrimination, as they say Rome was not built in a day. No Pun intended.
From an agnostic perspective, one side appear to be arrogant, self-righteous, narrow minded bigots, whilst the other look like deluded, closed minded zealots living in the land of the fairies.
Actually no. A quick scan and you brought up news papers in post number 45 and I answered you in post number 50. Don't be a lying toe-rag your whole life and don't be so backward stupid as to get yourself caught out so bloody easily. You thick Malvinista knob.
I just made a comment on the BBC and provided a link in post n 45, AND YOU told me you prefered the daily whatsoever.
Man YOU are thick....So pathetic not even worth insulting.
You give us a link to the Daily Mail, you do not distinguish if your issue is with the Daily Mail or the BBC and lets face it they are both supposedly news vendors. Then you continue to mention the Daily Mail and the Sun but NOT the BBC in subsequent posts and then at the very end you say it is all about the BBC. Well pardon me for my confusion but you do lack consistency.
#80 I have the same worries. Cristina bravely attacked his anti-gay preaching in 2010, calling it reminiscent of the inquisition and the crusades. And his role under the junta seems very murky; the line of his defenders in the British media at least is that the allegations are lies by militant leftists, who are really out to get him for his criticism of the government for not doing enough to fight poverty. If he was really just saying Cristina should move EVEN MORE to the left, why would the militants be against him?! My impression is if he is saying that its probably another Moyanoesque talking left in order to help the right trick, but what do you (and other trusted commentators like Think) think? I hope he won't now use his position as God's representative on Earth to meddle in Argentine politics and help the right wing opposition of which he seems to have been a part these last years; a bit like what John Paul did in Poland except Argentina isn't a Communist dictatorship under Russian occupation, so hopefuly it should be a harder job for hoim to get the moral high ground against a President who has done more than any other to help the poor and keeps winning free elections?
On the other hand he was good on AIDS; Channel 4 news said he washed victims' feet 20 years ago when it was taboo. And on a lighter note having an Argie Pope will really wind up some of the backwoodsmen, not least on here, no?!
he at least is against corruption and robbing, says that to our politics (that didnt like him) of all governments, and also lives according to what he says.
he cared of those who were vulnerable on this society.
nobody was expecting him to be elected here in Arg, becuase of his age, neither him, said his sister.
hope the best for him.
I like also Máxima, she is also simple, we cant blame her for her parents, she is intelligent and is working in microcredits (she studied economy in Arg) and goes to schools, organisations to talk about economy and visits her family in Arg, took her kids to hospital here, once they got ill, I mean normal.
I am sorry my Brits pals, the circle is closing. And the world is changing...
Hey, this society of 21st century will embrace YOU as the group of people who has NEVER EVOLVED. HURRY UP, AND CHANGE BEFORE THE WORLD SURPRISE YOU Or,
You could create and a fantasy world with Somalian Pirates, and start CLAIMING EVERY THING YOU FIND FLOATING IN THE OCEAN.
You don think you are better than them, right? Well, may be is true. YOU ARE ALL OLD CRAMKY and UNABLE TO WALK 1/2 yard without your medicine Supermen. The Somalian are Real Pirates
VIVA EL PAPA ARGENTINO !
I understand your disability. You will 6 Ft under the ground without seeing the world from outside of shape of an straw( this metaphor from second grade is for you to understand) In other word, you will never learn another language, but yes you have learn to steal and damage our society. Here in the USA could receive the ADA benefit as profound MR( tell some of your Argenitian good friend translate this because you are not capable. Can you clean your nose or you are still learning ? )
#96 ”I like also Máxima, she is also simple, we cant blame her for her parents, she is intelligent and is working in microcredits (she studied economy in Arg) and goes to schools, organisations to talk about economy and visits her family in Arg, took her kids to hospital here, once they got ill, I mean normal.”
Malen is talking about..:
Miss Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
AKA
Her Majesty The Queen of the Netherlands (from the 30 April 2013)
103 Think
I believe more in the fairy tales of future Queen Máxima than in the fairy tale of Queen Christine (that ends in 2015 inexorablimently) when she tells she made money because she was “una abogada exitosa”. Dont you?
dont want to post links, but there are many people that knew them during that time of dictatorship.
Dilma, Mujica had been in jail. These had not been in jail, exiled, or havent been combatientes either.
They were becoming millonaires with 1050 decree of dictatorship.
so, de qué se las dan para criticar?????
40 years robbing, its time they can give us a rest.
Again, you are using the destructive arguments from the oposition.....
If they had been combatants, you would be calling them criminals....
I don't know how old you are but.....Do you remember 2001?
What do you want... Another Menem?
Macri?
I would luuuv Mujica as president of Argentina....
Maybe we should kidnap him :-)))
#105 “Malenita... Cristina is not my Queen.....
Neither is she my Princess.....
But, in the balance of things, she is a brave woman in an impossible job”
Quite right. I only called Cristina my Queen to annoy the ultra-Britishists in Jubilee year, and the beautiful princess of peace because she has insisted on persuing her case peacefully and looks like a beautiful princess =) (My real view, I hope obviously, is that I hope Britain will soon be as advanced a constitutional democracy as Argentina and get to elect our own head of state!) As you say she is definately a very brave woman; I hope the job will not prove entirely impossible =)
#109 Right again. Its funny some of the right wingers on here, even the sensible ones, seem to think, probably subconsciously, that Dilma and Pepe were terrorists for fighting their juntas, Nestor and Cristina were collabortors for NOT doing what the “terrorists” did, and yet with Francis, well, it was a difficult time and he did the best he could. Maybe he did and maybe he could have done more, but it was a difficult toime for ALL of them, including those who took part in armed struggle and those who mde a tactical retreat to live to fight another day.
#111 ”I would luuuv Mujica as president of Argentina....
Maybe we should kidnap him :-)))”
Only if that means we can have Cristina as Prime Minister (or President!) of Britain =)
#115 “Military dictatorships in the last century:
Argentina - 6
UK - 0”
Yes our democracy is older and has at times, especially the late 70s, been way in advance of Argentina's - but the truth is the Argies have caught up with and overtaken us, and are still steaming ahead on issues like press ownership that are the blight of our body politic too!
“Oh PS British Kirchnerist, you totally gave away the fact you are not British in that post! Can you find it?”
No I can't, and since I am British its a bit of a moot point! But please do point out your flawed reasoning, I for one am interested =)
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Disclaimer & comment rulesCongratulations to him.
Mar 14th, 2013 - 03:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0I wish he wasn't a cuervo fan but at least he is not gallina.
Malvinas and the Pope belong to Argentina.
Habemus Papam.. ARGENTINO!!!
Mar 14th, 2013 - 04:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0Where are the trolls of the islands, who prophesied that Argentina is about to disappear? Hahahaha!
LOL..
2 XAVIERV
Mar 14th, 2013 - 04:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0I heard they are forming lines to buy a return ticket.
“Las Malvinas are ours“: New Argentinian Pope Francis has hard line on Falkland Islands”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/pope-francis-hard-line-falkland-1762205
I wish him the best and hope he brings well needed change for the church but think it will, sadly, just be “more of the same”.
Mar 14th, 2013 - 04:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0(1) Marcos Alejandro
Mar 14th, 2013 - 04:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0Two Souls..... One Thought....
A Pope may be ANYTHING..., but Bostero.
Ignore the falklands issue, i'm more concerned on his opinions and plans regarding same sex marriage, corruption, homosexuality, child abuse in the church, women priests, priests celibacy, opening vatican records (historical and financial) to the public... Many, many bigger issues to deal with. Please don't make this another falklands thread, it gets very tiring.
Mar 14th, 2013 - 05:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0A Dutch pope will never happen, so I have no dog in this fight, but my Brazilian girlfriend says it is a terrible choice ( the've chosen a mobster vs southern european and (hidden) nazi german pedophilia scumbags). Furios that they have chosen an Argentine over a Brazilian that has the most catholics in the world (for now, question is for how long since the Christian Evangelical movement is rising faster then ever).
Mar 14th, 2013 - 05:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0Anyway, this is now what they talk about in Alternative Media in the US. I suspect, we will hear more about this new pope.
http://www.hangthebankers.com/pope-francis-kidnapping-controversy-accused-of-involvement-in-1976-abductions/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pope-francis-kidnapping-controversy-accused-of-involvement-in-1976-abductions
Meanwhile the Evangelicals are moving faster forward in South America, mainly in Brazil.
@6 I agree, the Pope should be concerned with the Church.
Mar 14th, 2013 - 05:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0For such an ancient organisation with immense historical archives, I wonder how it will cope with things like Twitter.
Mar 14th, 2013 - 05:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0@6 Boovis
I'm not really concerned about his views on same sex marriage and homosexuality. The church really doesn't have much influence on civil society in most countries any longer.
The US is still predominantly against both and murders take place in African states regularly because of the same reasons. The Pope could speak out and change all this.
Mar 14th, 2013 - 05:21 am - Link - Report abuse 05 Think
Mar 14th, 2013 - 05:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0Somehow I knew that one was coming :-))))))
(11) Marcos Alejandro
Mar 14th, 2013 - 05:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0A Bostero that “knew” something?
The age of miracles is not over ;-)))))
You know, If I was to start listening to “Voices in my head” or saying that ”God has spoken to ( unto me, sorry ) I would be given my own padded cell and a jacket that does up at the back..........
Mar 14th, 2013 - 07:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0If I go to church and talk to my imaginary friend, and listen to what he has to say then that's ok and entirely “normal”........go figure.....
He looks like a Bond villain.
Mar 14th, 2013 - 07:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0Fingers crossed this Pope is prepared to take a tough line on child abuse.
So the malvanists think the Holy Father is now going to spend his time petitioning for the Falklands to be handed over to Argentina. I think he will.spend his time dealing with pertient issues to the church and it's flock of 1.3bn.
Mar 14th, 2013 - 07:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0(11) Marcos Alejandro
Mar 14th, 2013 - 07:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0Look what I found, in English ;-))))
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bostero
Oh. A Malvinista is in charge of the church of the great sky fairy? This is going to be fun.
Mar 14th, 2013 - 07:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0A Jesuit Malvanista - were there no kiddie-fiddlers available?
Mar 14th, 2013 - 08:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0At least his Argentine heritage looks pretty solid - Italian parents.
@3 Marcos Alexandro
Mar 14th, 2013 - 08:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0Thanks for the link. So the new pope is Malvinista! It's a sign from God that the Malvinas are Argentine. First their was Maradonna now there's Pope Francis, the signs are there, definitely. Thank the lord that religion is pure fantasy.
How can a man, such as the Pope, wear such a beautiful white dress and still be so homophobic?
Mar 14th, 2013 - 08:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0I knew this would be trouble.
Mar 14th, 2013 - 08:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.dailysquib.co.uk/world/3881-new-pope-wants-catholic-church-to-invade-falklands.html
@21 Trunce (#)
Mar 14th, 2013 - 08:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0Mar 14th, 2013 - 08:35 am
'Blubber blabber blubber' said the Argentine president.
PMSL!
Ahhh the inbreds out in force again. Funny they mention the Pope, when a guy who beheaded 5 or 6 of his wives became HEAD OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND so much for Christian love... LMAO.
Mar 14th, 2013 - 08:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0P:S: It´s so easy to hammer you boys that it´s becoming a tad boring...
(15) Beef
Mar 14th, 2013 - 08:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0Pertinent, Mr. Beef....
P e r t i n e n t.
PA
Mar 14th, 2013 - 08:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0As ever, such a rich Argentinian grasp of history, actually it was two, but hey, since when did the true facts ever get in the way of Argentine claims.
Only 2...that´s all about you can say, you poor little sad dwarf?
Mar 14th, 2013 - 08:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0@23
Mar 14th, 2013 - 08:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0Don't exaggerate - it was merely two ; )
King Henry the Eighth,
to six wives he was wedded.
One died, one survived,
two divorced, two beheaded.
@27 nice rhyme. Thumbs up ; (ironic mode off)
Mar 14th, 2013 - 09:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0Speaking about the fine “Family Values” of Henry VIII and his small “Pecadillos”....
Mar 14th, 2013 - 09:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0I couldn't avoid noticing, through all that press coverage during the last couple of weeks ,that many of the senior Kelpers have definitely gained more than a few stones in the last couple of years....
In best Argentinean manner, I demand you eat more veggies and less gravy!
Take care, Kelpers
El Think, Chubut, Argentina
Sad dwarf who knows and can tell the truth, compared to a fact distorting troll, who can lie through her teeth, no suprise there. A national trait, well practiced and encouraged from birth.
Mar 14th, 2013 - 09:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0Now's the best time for Argentina to push its land grab, with a sympathetic Pope, and a retard in the White House, who thinks Britain should hold talks with Argentina on sovereignty of the Maldives. A malvinista accused of kidnapping children 'elected' head of the Catholic church. No wonder Catholicism's going down the toilet and the evangelicals are expanding in South America... thus the transparent political appointment. Obama’s on the way out and somehow I reckon your Pope won’t be around for very long. Bring it on.
Mar 14th, 2013 - 09:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0Comment removed by the editor.
Mar 14th, 2013 - 09:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0Think, just for you.
Mar 14th, 2013 - 09:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDXD7TT2VpQ
Thought you would prefer Stanleys version better than Hermans Hermits.
@33 Listen to me “mate”, I brought up the Hernry VIII stuff just to point out how hypocrite you people are. You don´t seem or want to understand that. You guys have your heads so stuck up in your arses that you are quick to talk about almost everything, conveniently forgetting your own crap. Done talking to you.
Mar 14th, 2013 - 09:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0Jos jedan Publika Pobjeda!!!!
@34
Mar 14th, 2013 - 09:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0You are aware he died in 1547 aren't you?
In the 466 years since we have never put a foot wrong.
I brought up the point that you people exaggerated again. If your going to bring up a point at least due us the courtesy of being honest, for once.
Mar 14th, 2013 - 09:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0@35 My point is....HE became the Head of the Church of England, are you aware of that?
Mar 14th, 2013 - 10:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0@37 What really? HenryVIII made himself head of the Church of England? Well I never.
Mar 14th, 2013 - 10:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0And this thing that happened 500 years ago bears what relevance to 2013?
I am aware that he lived 500 years ago and that if you wanted to keep your head back then, you did not bloody upset him. Well aware of that.
Mar 14th, 2013 - 10:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0Churches? It's all bunkum anyway.
Mar 14th, 2013 - 10:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0Read Dawkins, Darwin, Dr Brian Cox, Patrick Moore and Galilio
Poor old Galilio was tortured and imprisoned.
Didn't you see Monty Python - “Its the Spanish Inquisition!”
37 Pesky Army (#)
Mar 14th, 2013 - 11:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0Mar 14th, 2013 - 10:01 am
My point would be that he died 466 years ago and so is hardly relevant to any modern argument. Damn! You Malvinistas are just too easy.
@40 Dawkins a huge disappointment and easy refutable
Mar 14th, 2013 - 11:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0Galileo was imprisoned YET he remain faithful until the end of his days
Darwin, lost his faith in God because of a traumatic personal experience (think it was due to the lost of his daughter, but can´t remember now).
Btw Catholic Church accepts and do not question the theory of evolution (natural not spiritual) , which is just that, a THEORY.
Of all atheist/agnostic writers, the one who makes most sense is Victor Stenger imo.
I hope Argentines realise they now have a special duty to set an example for other Catholics throughout the world.
Mar 14th, 2013 - 11:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://youtu.be/fUspLVStPbk
@42
Mar 14th, 2013 - 11:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0The Theory of Gravity is also just a theory but unless you are floating around then it is one that has been well proven - just like the Theory of Evolution.
And how exactly is Dawkins “easily refutable”. All of our emotions, thoughts and dreams are due to the coordinated release of neurotransmitters from cells encoded by DNA passed to us from our ancestors both human and ultmately primate, rodent, fish and microorganism. Darwin excluded man from “On the Origin of Species” not because he didn't realise that's how man evolved but because he knew he would be despised by the religious establishment for it and so he hoped broad-minded people would work out the human implication for themselves. People aren't so scared to speak out nowadays - hence Dawkins.
I hope Brits can afford a translator
Mar 14th, 2013 - 11:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2292936/BBC-slammed-Pope-election-coverage-translator-fails-translate-Hail-Mary-Our-Father-prayers-correctly.html
Now it dawns to me where you people get all your facts from. You just simple cannot understand a single word outside your tiny little world.
Yeah, the BBC would not know a lot about foreign language services would they?
Mar 14th, 2013 - 11:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0@45
Mar 14th, 2013 - 11:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0Yes thanks - we got taught the various religious nursery rhymes at school. But now we have grown up and can think for ourselves we have forgotten them and moved on. Do people in Argentina also challenge the various fairy stories they were taught in school when they grow up?
@45
Mar 14th, 2013 - 11:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0“I hope Brits can afford a translator”
He was a foreigner- what more would you expect? ; )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_World_Service
Mar 14th, 2013 - 11:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0@45 Pesky Army (#)
Mar 14th, 2013 - 11:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0Mar 14th, 2013 - 11:26 am
No. I prefer the Daily Mash. Far more entertaining and closer to the truth.
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/international/vatican-sticks-with-nazi-theme-2013031462640
@44 Doesn´t change the fact that it is a theory.
Mar 14th, 2013 - 11:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0Regarding Dawkins just read any of Alister McGrath´s books.
Apart from the so call selfish gen, Dawkins goes into a rant against religions blaming them for everything is wrong in this world, as if people did not and still do kill each other for politics, power, etc. Even because of sport rivalry I might add.
The vast majority of Brits have moved on from superstitions like religion, and most of the rest are wary of catholics, because most are loyal to Britain, not to some Italian/ Argentinian foreigner. I am an atheist and I think religion is at the root of most wars, conflicts and sorrow. Just because I am atheist doesn't mean that I have no code to live by, many religions have good codes. But Catholicism is a particularly odious faith, it supresses half the population based on sex, opposes contraception, opposes homosexuality, opposes abortion and would take us all back to the dark ages given half a chance. What's more, this guy is at the head of the queue for all these evils. If there is anything that us Aetheists can join, its The Brights, a breath of fresh air in a very superstitious (and in many places including the US, backward), world
Mar 14th, 2013 - 12:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@51
Mar 14th, 2013 - 12:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No, evolution is a proven fact. Your latter point shows that you have missed the entire point of what Dawkins is saying. We are fundamentally tribal because our genes and memes make and keep us so. Religion, football and politics etc are just extensions of those tribal battles. In evolutionary terms, people who nurture their children are more reproductively successful than those who let them fend for themselves - therefore nurturing behaviour gets selected for. Its just oxytocin that makes us do it, the same hormone that makes any mammal bond with its young. Don't kid yourself that we are special. So when you have a go at us Brits for our supposed arrogance, just bear in mind it was a Brit who showed the world that none of us are any more special than a rat or a dog.
@50
Mar 14th, 2013 - 12:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Speking of the truth may I suggest you reading this:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/cristinaodone/100206992/the-guardian-sticks-the-knife-into-the-new-pope/
Boy you people are twisted...
P.S. Instead of wasting my time here shouldn´t you be learning bulgarian and romanian languages, I´ve heard it will be an asset in the years to come in a place call Britain; I can even help you out with bulgarian.
Trolls, the Guardian and the Independent are very low circulation , less than 200,000 . They are recognised as limp wristed 'wimp' papers with no influence at all.
Mar 14th, 2013 - 01:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yes, our country welcomes all sorts from vegetable pickers to brain surgeons, as long as they are willing to work. We don't restrict foreigners to the villas to struggle as cartoneros like you do.
Most of you are guests of various EU countries as you try to escape the poverty and crime of Argentina. However much you have been brainwashed from birth you must have grave doubts nagging away at your hearts.
If you want to quote press quote influential newspapers.
Errr sorry but was it me the one quoting from “the daily mash” and stating that it was “Far more entertaining and closer to the truth”.
Mar 14th, 2013 - 01:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Barking up at the wrong tree mate..
Regarding me I am no guest in Europe since I was born here from european parents, just happens that I ve lived in Argieland for some years. And no, I aint of no Spanish/italian background just slavic and germanic ;
According to you all people from those countries are more than welcomed right? That´s odd because I have been reading on the Daily Mail for a week at leat (is it influential enough for you) how these people were coming to Britain to abuse the system and so on. Anyway your problem not mine. Just proves your hypocresy once more.
@56 Pesky Army (#)
Mar 14th, 2013 - 02:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Mar 14th, 2013 - 01:28 pm
No. That was me. You know that the Daily Mash is satire don't you?
And you've been reading the Daily Mail for a week?
That would explain the frothing at the mouth and the incomprehensible drivel then. Is it influential enough? No. It isn't influential at all. C-minus. Must try a whole lot harder than this you fraction of an individual.
@57 So, you base your opinions on satirical papers and then refer to them as “ closer to the truth”? Boy you are a piece of work...
Mar 14th, 2013 - 02:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“And you've been reading the Daily Mail for a week?” I just pointed out that the news about the romanians and bulgarians were delivered on a daily basis by the tabloid for at least a week. You seem to have limited comprehension skills.
At least this fraction of an individual can understand basic english you little bitter mousekin...
Hahaha, we call the Daily Mail the Daily Fascist in our house. It's an extreme right wing rag beloved by Colonel Blimps and racists and laughed at by the vast majority. Should be great reading for someone from Argentina and all other lovers of Franco, Mussolini and Hitler! We don't seek to prove hypocracy, we just like taunting hypocrites...
Mar 14th, 2013 - 02:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If you are talking about Iraq, 2 million British people marched on the streets of London to oppose the war, the biggest ever demo in the history of our country. And, Blair is branded as a war criminal by the vast majority. The same goes for Afghanistan. As for the Chagos that's just hyperbole dreamed up by your people. There is no better place than Britain, and British culture is best which is why it needs to be protected and fostered. If you had travelled to all corners of the world you would know that.
@58 Pesky Army (#)
Mar 14th, 2013 - 02:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Mar 14th, 2013 - 02:32 pm
Sorry. My bad. You'd need a sense of humour to understand that one.
Listen chap you're getting delusional. La Campora might think you're the best of the best but their standards are pretty poor and in the real world the ability to string a couple of grunts together does not make an animal sentient.
Keep banging those pots together though, I am sure you'll get there eventually.
Well, it might be great reading for an Argie, but it happens that it still is a british tabloid right? BTW you are telling me that since DM, the Sun, etc are fascist tabloids, my conclusion is that fascism is alive and well in Britain with thousands of people swallowing their garbage everyday. If only Oswie Mosley would be around to see this...
Mar 14th, 2013 - 02:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Congratulations to Argentina :)
Mar 14th, 2013 - 02:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0loved his joke about Cardenals looking to the end of the world :D
Buenos Aires Herald: “http://buenosairesherald.com/article/126327/did-venezuela%E2%80%99s-ch%C3%A1vez-nudge-christ-to-pick-south-american-pope” did chavez nudge christ to pick an SA pope?”
Mar 14th, 2013 - 02:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No, simple answer. Don't be so frickin mental.
@61 Pesky Army (#)
Mar 14th, 2013 - 02:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Mar 14th, 2013 - 02:50 pm
I wouldn't say that but you are a knob so I suppose you would. It is alive, yes, but it isn't well. We have far too much fun slapping it own. In the same way we like slap down throbbers like you. It is a national sport.
Daily Mail readers? Sun readers? We have a name for them. Knobs and throbbers and the people think they are the beating heart of British public opinion. That will be you Pesky. That will be you. Tw@t.
63 :O All I can say is... he´s in campaing to fight for presidency, politicians talk strange stuff while in campaing :)
Mar 14th, 2013 - 03:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@64 Furry ol' boy you are seriously losing the plot here mate, just calm down, take a deep breath and repeat with: Las malvinas son argentinas.
Mar 14th, 2013 - 03:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Feel better now? Good
My question is: how is it that you have some many fascist tabloids if there weren't any fascist readers...sure La Campora and KKristina must be behind funding them. Makes a lot of sense to me.
@66 Pesky Army (#)
Mar 14th, 2013 - 04:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Mar 14th, 2013 - 03:07 pm
You remind me of somebody who used to post on here. Same style, same drivel. Different name, different nationality (again).
It's not is it? That you Guzz? You back?
I do hope so I've missed old Guzz, he was a wheeze. Just like you.
By the way. Repeat after me
The Pope is the leader of the Church of the Invisible Sky Fairy.
@67 Furious Fatty
Mar 14th, 2013 - 04:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Are you planning to answer me the question anytime soon?
How is it that you have so many fascist tabloids if there weren't any fascist readers. Is it La Campora and KKristina behind those, funding them.
Ha! It is you! Guzz mate I've missed you! It's me. War Monkey. We used to be muckers remember?
Mar 14th, 2013 - 04:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Anyway. To your question. Erm? Dunno? Maybe there are racist fascist readers it wouldn't surprise me you find the buggers everywhere you go. They were all over East Falkland in 1982. Some of them spoke Welsh with a South American accent which was a bit freaky.
Argentina, no, South America. The place is crawling with them. The UK? Yes I've met a few but they tend to hide under rocks. That said, I know a few people who read those rags for a laugh or because there is bugger all else to read. I say read but, well, you know what mean as you have confessed to being a reader yourself. Sorry. Did that answer your question?
Guzz. Good to see you back mate!
No you did not, but anyway I will just let it go, since it's obvious you cannot give me a better answer.
Mar 14th, 2013 - 04:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Back to Guzz I don't know who the heck he is. Sorry but I don't think we have ever met each other.
Okay. Sorry my mistake. Look I'm sorry I have read your post several times and I can't really see a question.
Mar 14th, 2013 - 04:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“How is it that you have so many fascist tabloids if there weren't any fascist readers. Is it La Campora and KKristina behind those, funding them.”
Well it's not really a question is it because you lead with the assumption that there are a lot of tabloid news papers in Britain. But what are you comparing it to? Italian tabloids? Spanish?, Brazilian? You see you have posed a leading question without any context which is what propagandists do and I usually make a point not to answer. They are not questions. They are troll posts and in your own way you have answered it yourself.
If you want a question answered ask a question, don't try to dress an opinion up as a question and bitch when nobody answers you.
“How is it that you have so many fascist tabloids if there weren't any fascist readers. Who is funding them? How do they survive, day after day, week after week?
Mar 14th, 2013 - 04:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Does it sound better now? Comprendes ingles amigo?
P.S. What I posted before was a Logical statement, but you don't seem to get it do you?
Pónganse contento que el Papa es Argentino como todos ustedes en las islas Malvinas. Dios esta de nuestro lado y no hay armas mas poderosas que eso. amén
Mar 14th, 2013 - 05:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That will be Rupert the Il Duce!
Mar 14th, 2013 - 05:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yes that sounds better now. An actual question.
Mar 14th, 2013 - 05:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It is a two part answer I reckon.
Firstly the legal framework that these tabloids operate in have to allow them to operate yes? That would be free press regulation then. Easy. If of course they say or do something that infringes the legal framework then action would and indeed has been taken in the past. And don't forget that just because you might disagree with somebody's opinion, it won't make the expression of that opinion illegal.
Secondly there would be the daily readership which would require only a small percentage of the population to make it profitable.
You could not assume that every Sun or Daily mail reader is a right wing fascist (but i do wonder sometimes) and even if they were you could never assume that the whole country was a right wing fascist state. Unless you have an axe to grind in which case your opinion would be moot.
Controversy already about the new Pope and his association with the military junta:
Mar 14th, 2013 - 05:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://news.sky.com/story/1064535/pope-francis-and-argentinas-dirty-war
Dios es argentino, no cabe duda
Mar 14th, 2013 - 05:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Strong social conscience? LOL
Mar 14th, 2013 - 06:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0A slimy coward who turns a blind eye when a junta is murdering his fellow countrymen by the thousands doesn't have a conscience ... social or otherwise. He is the scum of the earth.
@75 First things first, I never said all the country was a right wing fascist state or that Great Britain was a fascist state. It just seems to me that if those 2 tabloids are popular enough, it´s because someone reads them right?, That´s all.
Mar 14th, 2013 - 06:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The article is excellent. For being honest, i am not happy with bergoglio's designation as the new pope.
Mar 14th, 2013 - 06:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0During the debates for gay marriage in july of 2010, he compared the aprobation of that law, with a war against god.
On the other hand, the fact that he's seriously suspected of not protecting those two priest during the dictatorship, make me not to be proud of him.
Beside, there are documents which prove that he knew about the babies appropiations, during the dictatorship. Sorry, but i am not happy with the election of this man as the new pope.
On the other hand, gay people like me have never been welcome by the church, so, as long as it continues excluding people wno have always been discriminated and ignored by the different societies around the world, the church will contunue losing more and more devotes.
First, he never turned a blind eye about victims of the Junta, instead fought for them to be released alive. Read Peace Nobel Prize Pérez Esquivel about the hateful libels written by the kirchnerists.
Mar 14th, 2013 - 06:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Second, we have already lose a pro-Argentina priest, as Pope he would never allowed himself to be part in our conflict.
Axel poofters belong to Mardi Gras in Manchester not to the Church...
Mar 14th, 2013 - 06:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Axel
Mar 14th, 2013 - 06:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In August 2003 the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire elected an openly gay priest, Gene Robinson, as a bishop. This came shortly after a similar controversy in England when a gay priest, Canon Jeffrey John, was appointed to become the Suffragan Bishop of Reading. Eventually, however, John agreed to withdraw in order to avoid division. In 2004, in the aftermath of Robinson's election as bishop, John was installed as Dean of St Albans, the cathedral there being the site of England's first Christian martyr.
However I believe the church requires Gay Priests to be cellebate, which in my opinion is still discrimination, as they say Rome was not built in a day. No Pun intended.
@79 Pesky Army (#)
Mar 14th, 2013 - 07:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Mar 14th, 2013 - 06:28 pm
Then what exactly is your point? It seems like a very odd statement to make if it means nothing to you. Why waste your time on it?
Oh dear since you brought up the whole thing of the newspapers, I was just following the thread...man you are thick
Mar 14th, 2013 - 07:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0From an agnostic perspective, one side appear to be arrogant, self-righteous, narrow minded bigots, whilst the other look like deluded, closed minded zealots living in the land of the fairies.
Mar 14th, 2013 - 07:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Alexei I posted in russian previously still waiting to hear your thoughts about it...
Mar 14th, 2013 - 07:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@85 Pesky Army (#)
Mar 14th, 2013 - 07:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Mar 14th, 2013 - 07:25 pm
Actually no. A quick scan and you brought up news papers in post number 45 and I answered you in post number 50. Don't be a lying toe-rag your whole life and don't be so backward stupid as to get yourself caught out so bloody easily. You thick Malvinista knob.
I just made a comment on the BBC and provided a link in post n 45, AND YOU told me you prefered the daily whatsoever.
Mar 14th, 2013 - 07:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Man YOU are thick....So pathetic not even worth insulting.
@89 Pesky Army (#)
Mar 14th, 2013 - 08:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Mar 14th, 2013 - 07:57 pm
.......and yet you continue to answer and insult.
You give us a link to the Daily Mail, you do not distinguish if your issue is with the Daily Mail or the BBC and lets face it they are both supposedly news vendors. Then you continue to mention the Daily Mail and the Sun but NOT the BBC in subsequent posts and then at the very end you say it is all about the BBC. Well pardon me for my confusion but you do lack consistency.
You are losing it mate....
Mar 14th, 2013 - 08:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0He lost, pea brain trol, nuthing to say
Mar 14th, 2013 - 09:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I believe the expression is faeces agitator.
Mar 14th, 2013 - 09:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Better known as shit stirrer.
He gone by by . Sleep with sister
Mar 14th, 2013 - 10:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#80 I have the same worries. Cristina bravely attacked his anti-gay preaching in 2010, calling it reminiscent of the inquisition and the crusades. And his role under the junta seems very murky; the line of his defenders in the British media at least is that the allegations are lies by militant leftists, who are really out to get him for his criticism of the government for not doing enough to fight poverty. If he was really just saying Cristina should move EVEN MORE to the left, why would the militants be against him?! My impression is if he is saying that its probably another Moyanoesque talking left in order to help the right trick, but what do you (and other trusted commentators like Think) think? I hope he won't now use his position as God's representative on Earth to meddle in Argentine politics and help the right wing opposition of which he seems to have been a part these last years; a bit like what John Paul did in Poland except Argentina isn't a Communist dictatorship under Russian occupation, so hopefuly it should be a harder job for hoim to get the moral high ground against a President who has done more than any other to help the poor and keeps winning free elections?
Mar 14th, 2013 - 10:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0On the other hand he was good on AIDS; Channel 4 news said he washed victims' feet 20 years ago when it was taboo. And on a lighter note having an Argie Pope will really wind up some of the backwoodsmen, not least on here, no?!
he at least is against corruption and robbing, says that to our politics (that didnt like him) of all governments, and also lives according to what he says.
Mar 15th, 2013 - 12:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0he cared of those who were vulnerable on this society.
nobody was expecting him to be elected here in Arg, becuase of his age, neither him, said his sister.
hope the best for him.
I like also Máxima, she is also simple, we cant blame her for her parents, she is intelligent and is working in microcredits (she studied economy in Arg) and goes to schools, organisations to talk about economy and visits her family in Arg, took her kids to hospital here, once they got ill, I mean normal.
I am sorry my Brits pals, the circle is closing. And the world is changing...
Mar 15th, 2013 - 03:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0Hey, this society of 21st century will embrace YOU as the group of people who has NEVER EVOLVED. HURRY UP, AND CHANGE BEFORE THE WORLD SURPRISE YOU Or,
You could create and a fantasy world with Somalian Pirates, and start CLAIMING EVERY THING YOU FIND FLOATING IN THE OCEAN.
You don think you are better than them, right? Well, may be is true. YOU ARE ALL OLD CRAMKY and UNABLE TO WALK 1/2 yard without your medicine Supermen. The Somalian are Real Pirates
VIVA EL PAPA ARGENTINO !
Can someone please translate post 97 from schizoid and manic Spanglish into sane and normal English.
Mar 15th, 2013 - 04:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0I know he is making a point but does anyone other than he know what it is?
16 Think
Mar 15th, 2013 - 05:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0You said:
Marcos Alejandro
Look what I found, in English ;-))))
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=riber+plate
I know, las gayinas are famous :-))))))
Aglot- Dino,
Mar 15th, 2013 - 12:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I understand your disability. You will 6 Ft under the ground without seeing the world from outside of shape of an straw( this metaphor from second grade is for you to understand) In other word, you will never learn another language, but yes you have learn to steal and damage our society. Here in the USA could receive the ADA benefit as profound MR( tell some of your Argenitian good friend translate this because you are not capable. Can you clean your nose or you are still learning ? )
#96 ”I like also Máxima, she is also simple, we cant blame her for her parents, she is intelligent and is working in microcredits (she studied economy in Arg) and goes to schools, organisations to talk about economy and visits her family in Arg, took her kids to hospital here, once they got ill, I mean normal.”
Mar 15th, 2013 - 07:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Who are you talking about here?
Oh damn.
Mar 15th, 2013 - 08:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Can someone please help me understand posts 97 AND 100!
(101) British_Kirchnerist
Mar 15th, 2013 - 08:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You ask Malen...:
Who are you talking about here?
Malen is talking about..:
Miss Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
AKA
Her Majesty The Queen of the Netherlands (from the 30 April 2013)
Argie girls luuuuuv this fairy story.....
103 Think
Mar 15th, 2013 - 10:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I believe more in the fairy tales of future Queen Máxima than in the fairy tale of Queen Christine (that ends in 2015 inexorablimently) when she tells she made money because she was “una abogada exitosa”. Dont you?
(104) Malen
Mar 16th, 2013 - 12:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0Malenita... Cristina is not my Queen.....
Neither is she my Princess.....
But, in the balance of things, she is a brave woman in an impossible job.
ALL things are important when you make a balance, in my oppinion.
Mar 16th, 2013 - 02:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0ALL things indeed.......... Couldn't agree more with you..
Mar 16th, 2013 - 09:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0Please remember that constructing approach when critizicising our current administration.
As far as I remember, it was during the dictatorship, that Ks in Río Gallegos were working as “abogada/o exitosa/o”....if numbers dont fail me.
Mar 16th, 2013 - 11:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0Malenita.... Malenita....
Mar 16th, 2013 - 04:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The oldest trick in the book and you are falling for it......
If you only knew what General San Martin did with the “Damas Mendocinas” Jewels.....
If you only knew how many clerics Monseñor Bergoglio handed personally over to the Junta.....
If you only knew what Máxima does on ........
Etc.........
Etc......
Etc...
Entendés a donde estoy yendo?
No te dejés engañar tán facil pebeta!
dont want to post links, but there are many people that knew them during that time of dictatorship.
Mar 16th, 2013 - 10:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Dilma, Mujica had been in jail. These had not been in jail, exiled, or havent been combatientes either.
They were becoming millonaires with 1050 decree of dictatorship.
so, de qué se las dan para criticar?????
40 years robbing, its time they can give us a rest.
Dear Malen
Mar 17th, 2013 - 04:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0Again, you are using the destructive arguments from the oposition.....
If they had been combatants, you would be calling them criminals....
I don't know how old you are but.....Do you remember 2001?
What do you want... Another Menem?
Macri?
I would luuuv Mujica as president of Argentina....
Maybe we should kidnap him :-)))
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Mar 17th, 2013 - 01:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#105 “Malenita... Cristina is not my Queen.....
Mar 22nd, 2013 - 09:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0Neither is she my Princess.....
But, in the balance of things, she is a brave woman in an impossible job”
Quite right. I only called Cristina my Queen to annoy the ultra-Britishists in Jubilee year, and the beautiful princess of peace because she has insisted on persuing her case peacefully and looks like a beautiful princess =) (My real view, I hope obviously, is that I hope Britain will soon be as advanced a constitutional democracy as Argentina and get to elect our own head of state!) As you say she is definately a very brave woman; I hope the job will not prove entirely impossible =)
#109 Right again. Its funny some of the right wingers on here, even the sensible ones, seem to think, probably subconsciously, that Dilma and Pepe were terrorists for fighting their juntas, Nestor and Cristina were collabortors for NOT doing what the “terrorists” did, and yet with Francis, well, it was a difficult time and he did the best he could. Maybe he did and maybe he could have done more, but it was a difficult toime for ALL of them, including those who took part in armed struggle and those who mde a tactical retreat to live to fight another day.
#111 ”I would luuuv Mujica as president of Argentina....
Maybe we should kidnap him :-)))”
Only if that means we can have Cristina as Prime Minister (or President!) of Britain =)
“I hope Britain will soon be as advanced a constitutional democracy as Argentina and get to elect our own head of state!”
Mar 22nd, 2013 - 12:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Military dictatorships in the last century:
Argentina - 6
UK - 0
2011 EUI Democracy Index ranking:
Argentina - 61
UK - 18
Yep! Advanced.
Oh PS British Kirchnerist, you totally gave away the fact you are not British in that post! Can you find it?
#115 “Military dictatorships in the last century:
Mar 22nd, 2013 - 09:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina - 6
UK - 0”
Yes our democracy is older and has at times, especially the late 70s, been way in advance of Argentina's - but the truth is the Argies have caught up with and overtaken us, and are still steaming ahead on issues like press ownership that are the blight of our body politic too!
“Oh PS British Kirchnerist, you totally gave away the fact you are not British in that post! Can you find it?”
No I can't, and since I am British its a bit of a moot point! But please do point out your flawed reasoning, I for one am interested =)
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