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‘I Didn’t Want to Be Pope’: Pope Francis Issues Stunning Statement

June 7, 2013 at 3:47pm

In reply to Sargeking.

“How many divisions does the Pope of Rome have?” Stalin asked, suddenly interrupting Churchill’s line of reasoning.

Churchill stopped short. He had not expected such a question. After all, he was speaking about the moral influence of the Pope, not only in Poland, but, also, throughout the world. Once again, Stalin reaffirmed that he only respected force, and brought Churchill back down to earth from the nebulous heavens.
‘I Didn’t Want to Be Pope’: Pope Francis Issues Stunning Statement

June 7, 2013 at 3:47pm

In reply to Sargeking.

In May 1935, French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval allegedly asked Stalin to improve the situation of Catholics in the USSR so as not to provoke a quarrel with the Pope. At that, Stalin, with his brutal sense of humour, asked, “The Pope? How many divisions does he have?” According to another version, he addressed this remark to Churchill. Here’s how Stalin’s interpreter, Valentin Berezhkov, described this scene in his memoirs:

In 1944, at a time when the Soviet Union bore the brunt of the struggle against Nazi Germany, it was important to convince Stalin that the Western democracies accepted him as an equal. “‘In the world of the future, for which our soldiers have shed their blood on countless fronts”, the British Prime Minister said in his bombastic style, “our three great democracies will demonstrate to all mankind that they, both in wartime and in peacetime, will remain true to the high principles of freedom, dignity, and happiness of the people. That is why I attach such paramount importance to good neighbourly relations between a restored Poland and the Soviet Union. It was for the freedom and independence of Poland that Britain went into this war. The British feel a sense of moral responsibility to the Polish people, to their spiritual values. It is also important that Poland is a Catholic country. We cannot allow internal developments there to complicate our relations with the Vatican…”

“How many divisions does the Pope of Rome have?” St
Sportscaster Jim Gray Agrees With Bob Costas’ Gun Control Argument During Fox Appearance — Then Almost Immediately Backtracks

December 3, 2012 at 3:44pm

So do you really want to trade this one tragdey for a few million violent crimes and deaths that never happened because citizens had the dettering factor of owning their own weapon for protection? Its really easy to say whoa, get rid of the gun and that would have never happened. But what about all those other deaths that never happened because the bad guy feared that his prey was armed? Will anyone speak for those who are still living because the bad guy was deterred? I didn’t think so.
A Special Message for Israel From Glenn Beck

November 19, 2012 at 6:15pm

In reply to Godfather.1.

There’s only one problem with your argument. Hamas is the aggressor. Isreal responds. If Isreal were the agressor, I would agree with you. But they aren’t. Hamas has shot nearly one thousand missles into Israel. And all you can say is that more Palestinian children were killed than Israeli? Where is the outrage against the men who started the bombing? They didn’t have to send death into Israel. Where is your sense of right and wrong. It is wrong to attack. It is not wrong to defend and bring to justice those who are killers. If Hamas didn’t bomb, no one in Palestine would be harmed. That’s where the trouble started and that’s where it will end.
Rep. Trey Gowdy Explodes at Libya Hearing: ‘I Want to Know Why We Were Lied To’

October 10, 2012 at 4:16pm

Well done Trey! He’s a keeper in congress. May he never change his lazer-focused quest for the truth.
Romney Just Delivered a Major Foreign Policy Speech — Here’s What You Need to Know

October 8, 2012 at 3:52pm

Business Insider uses the same headline choice: HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW. It doesn’t matter what the topic, they assume that the reader isn’t smart enough to figure out what is important to know. It’s pretty condesending. To say nothing of that fact that Business Insider has a dual mandate:

1) Promote Obama’s Re-Election at all costs and Destroy Romney’s character

2) Promote Keynsian economic money-printing policies in spite of the destruction of the US Dollar, and the disintigration of free markets.

That’s a headline I would discourage THE BLAZE from using in the future!
MSNBC’s Scarborough Loses It After Playing Biden’s Latest Gaffe

October 3, 2012 at 3:42pm

In reply to culpeperminuteman.

Its pretty simple why people are voting for Obama, just like the Book of Mormon says about an ancient kingdom in the Americas:

http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/ether/9.11?lang=eng#10

Just substitute Obama for Akish and you have your answer. Who ever said entitlement programs were something new. According to this reference they’ve been around for over three thousand years. Obama is just repeating history.
This Graph Will Tell You Everything You Need to Know About the World’s Gold Mines & Deposits

September 29, 2012 at 2:33am

In reply to Pyronaught.

It is understandable that central bankers do not want to admit this. Above all, central bankers want to retain their ability to print money without limit—something the gold standard would definitely curtail and with good reason.

Bernanke’s public efforts to put a lid on the emerging conversation about gold are becoming more obvious and vociferous. Bernanke insists that gold has no role in a modern monetary system as if money were a recent invention. The chairman doth protest too much, methinks.
This Graph Will Tell You Everything You Need to Know About the World’s Gold Mines & Deposits

September 29, 2012 at 2:32am

In reply to Pyronaught.

The issue is whether we will face up to the reality sooner than later in a studied and orderly way or wait for a disorderly and catastrophic day of financial reckoning.

The second reason central bankers give, is that gold is discredited as a monetary standard because it helped to cause the Great Depression. Again, this argument misreads history and confuses the role of gold with the role of price. It is true that the gold exchange standard of the 1920s and 1930s proved highly deflationary and did constitute one of the causes of the Great Depression. However, this owed to the fact that the United Kingdom and United States joined the new gold standard after World War I at the prewar price of about $20 per ounce notwithstanding that paper money supplies had expanded greatly since 1914 to pay for the costs of fighting the war. If the two great financial powers had re-entered the gold standard at a more realistic price of $50 per ounce in 1925, the effect would have been mildly inflationary and the Great Depression might have been avoided entirely. Indeed relaunching a gold standard today at $1,600 per ounce would be to commit the same blunder as relaunching the gold standard in 1925 at $20 per ounce. It’s all about the price.

The lesson in 1925 and the lesson today is that a gold standard can work but only if monetary authorities are honest about the extent to which money has already been debased by rampant printing. (continued below)
This Graph Will Tell You Everything You Need to Know About the World’s Gold Mines & Deposits

September 29, 2012 at 2:30am

In reply to Pyronaught.

You’re using the same tired arguments Bernanke and other central bankers use which can be boiled down to two propositions, both demonstrably false:

Gold cannot be used as a monetary standard because there’s not enough gold. This is one of the most frequent charges used by gold standard opponents. In fact, the quantity of gold is never an issue; the issue is one of price. There are approximately 31,000 metric tons of gold held by central banks today and another 130,000 metric tons in private hands. It is true that if this gold were valued at the current market price of about $1,650 per ounce, a money supply of equivalent value would be far less than the current money supply. This would be highly deflationary and probably result in a contraction of world trade and gross domestic product. However, the same quantity of gold valued at, say, $10,000 per ounce would support today’s paper money supply at a reasonable ratio of gold-to-paper in line with historic gold standards.

So, the issue is not the quantity; it’s the price. Central bankers do not want to face up to the fact that they have printed so much paper money that a return to sound money would involve a one-time hyperinflationary spike in all hard asset values and a concomitant destruction of paper wealth. This adjustment will take place eventually—it always does. (continued below)