MelRoy's Comments (2455)

“Oh, more than 15 years. But I don't know whether you remember the Reagan presidency. Nancy Reagan was constantly compared to Marie Antoinette due to her perceived extravagance. I REALLY LIKE the Obamas and especially Michelle. I don't suggest she wears sack cloth, but I do think she needs to be mindful of the flack she will get.

I would like to see the Obamas set a good example and inspire people in a different way. You must have heard that moderation is the new cool??”

“I am rarely critical of the President and this is Thanksgiving, so I send him and his family my best wishes for a great day with friends and family.

My ancestors emigrated to the United States in 1700. They were farmers, anyway, but the parcel of land they got from the English was so barren it had been abandoned by the native tribe. However, through their own perserverance and the help and advice of the Meherrin people, they celebrated a feast after their first good harvest in 1703.

I think they would find it rather curious that Presidents would later give state banquets, with the First Lady wearing a gown made with silver and gold thread by 40 Indians, working round the clock.

Michelle looked fabulous, but when can Washington get back to basics?”

“Thanksgiving blessings to all my fellow HuffPosters.

Gobble gobble gobble.”

“Uhhh...."G­oing Rogue" is a work of non-fiction?

I heard differently.”

“OMG, this one's so simple.

Huck is simply pointing out that Barack Obama didn't do the entire Wasilla High hockey team.”

“OK, Huck, sometimes you are pretty convincing and then you have a "moment of zen" and say something (or things) really, really stupid. You'll wake up tomorrow and turn to your lovely wife and say, "DANG, Hon, did it again!".”

“I prefer "The Party of DOH!"”

“I'll make this brief.

HA!”

“But isn't this because Palin struggles to define herself?

I liken Palin to the oracles. In Hellenistic culture, oracles were beautiful women who were thought to be inspired by gods. They babbled uninteligibly but were widely respected, because the people believed they had special gifts/powers of second sight. Nobody could understand what they were saying, so they construed the gibberish as what they wanted to hear.”

“Manned mission to the Sun?”

“I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. … When he opened the Abyss, … out of the smoke locusts came down upon the earth and were given power like that of scorpions … They had tails and stings like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months. They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon (Revelation 9:1-3, 10-11).
Lycia—a small country in southwest Turkey—also had an early connection with Apollo, where he was known as Lykeios, which some have joined to the Greek Lykos or ‘wolf’, thus making one of his ancient titles, “the wolf slayer.”

The Cumaean Sibyl (also known as Amalthaea), whose prophecy about the return of the god Apollo is encoded in the Great Seal of the United States, was the oldest of the Sibyls and the seer of the Underworld who in the Aeneid gave Aeneas a tour of the infernal region.

The Persian Sibyl was said to be prophetic priestess presiding over the Apollonian Oracle; though her location remained vague enough so that she might be called the "Babylonian Sibyl",”

“Is the Canadian government bankrupt? The French government? The German government?

Are you saying the United States is uniquely stupid and incompetent?”

“Hon, I'm a Catholic, and I'm telling you - crack down on the "cafeteria Catholics" and there will be very few of us left. The divorcees, adulterers, thieves, people who have IVF babies...h­ow far do you want to go? What about people who don't go to confession? People who have sinful thoughts? Liars?

The Church needs to be less, not more judgmental. Christianity has three foundations: Love, tolerance and forgiveness. Some clergy seem to have forgotten this, so absorbed are they with the power of their position. Thank God not all of them are like that.”

“That is what I thought. I don't believe the Bishop has the right to deny Mr Kennedy.”

“The Church is against a lot of things. They are against divorce. My sister was divorced and re-married in the Catholic Church. They are against IVF. It was actually classified as a mortal sin by John Paul II. Yet the Church turns a blind eye. Catholics practice birth control; the church turns a blind eye. Some Catholics do the most abhorrent things - even raping children - and the Church says "you are forgiven". Beat your wife, go to confession, take communion. Commit adultery, go to confession, take communion. Steal, lie, break every single one of the Commandments, go to confession, take communion.

But have an opinion which contradicts Church doctrine? Unforgiveable! What about Patrick Kennedy's Christian qualities? His concern for the poor and downtrodden? His charitable works? Does his Christian goodness count for nothing in the eyes of priests and bishops?

Technically, Mr Kennedy is a Catholic. He was baptised into the church, he was confirmed in the church. This Bishop is obliged to give him communion as far as I know. If anyone wants to correct me on that, feel free, but I have a feeling the Bishop is just posturing.”

“I'm a Catholic and personally pro-life but I'll be the first one to say this.

If the Catholic Church, or any religious sect tries to dictate policy by lobbying, withholding the eucharist or any other sacrament, then they need to lose their tax-free status TODAY. They need to make a choice - butt out of politics or get taxed on your income.

Secondly, through lots of study I know that not only do you not need a priest to give you the host but this is not what Jesus would have wanted. The Last Supper was a feast in the Passover tradition; for over a thousand years after that, Christians honored the tradition with feasts, i.e. full meals. The Roman Catholic Church actually BANNED this in 1432 as a method of "controlling" the rites of the eucharist! Against God's will and Christ's teachings they sought to separate the people from God, to make them dependent on organized religion to receive blessings, and in the process enrich themselves.”

“Listen up, tea baggers! You MUST KNOW somebody with a health insurance nightmare story to tell. There is no working class person I know who does not KNOW SOMEBODY who has had a horrible experience.

My dad worked all his life. He was a Teamster. He got cancer, had an operation, they screwed up (didn't tie off a bleeder), had another operation and 2 days into ICU they said, "Your insurance ran out". RAN OUT! Apparently, there was a cap on how much the insurance - which he had paid premiums for decades - would pay towards his treatment and hospitalization.

I was in my 20s. My sister was in her teens. My mom didn't earn much. What were we to do? We had to take him home, quit our jobs and tend to him ourselves with no training, no experience and the trauma of having to provide intensive care to our loved one.

And there is none of you who can tell me that situation doesn't totally suck!

You want to hear about the pregnant woman who was fired just because she was pregnant and therefore lost her health insurance and ended up with a $33,000 bill for an emergency C-section? And you folks call yourselves "pro-life"? Don't make me laugh!”

“IVF for childless couples is a mortal sin, according to the current Pope and his predecessor.”

“I also find many Protestants to be very welcoming. There's an evangelical church near my home and some of their flock go door to door to get people to attend. The first time they knocked on my door and I was home, I invited them in for coffee. Told them I am a "latent Catholic" (go to church for weddings, funerals, high holy days, the very occasional quiet meditation). No problem, come worship with us, all are welcome.”

“Excellent point. Why not grill them all during confession every week?”

“I can quote The Bible. I can also quote Dickens, Shakespeare, JD Salinger and Hunter S. Thompson.

So I read...wha­t's the problem?”

“You make an interesting point. You may have heard that Tony Blair is a Catholic convert. He is pro-choice and under his administration, radio advertising for abortion clinics was introduced. No bishop ever threatened to deny him the sacraments "or else".”

“Want to double that bet?

Ezekiel 9: 4-6

And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem.­...let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity: Slay old and young, both maids, and little children, and women"

Deuteronomy 32:25

"The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the old man." (Another translation talks about "making them childless", i.e. slaying their children in the streets).

Hosea 13:16

"Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up."”

“1 Samuel 15.

15:2 "Thus saith the LORD... slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass."

15:3 Now go and smite the Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.”

“And it is exactly what Jesus fought against.

If you believe in Jesus Christ, in his teachings, in his purpose on Earth, then do what he would do.

Invite all your friends over for dinner.”