Showing posts with label Georgetown. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Georgetown. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

#Exorcist reference in #Stalker

Obviously, Obama avoided "Exorcist" steps when he visited Georgetown, from "Stalker" episode "The Woods"



I've never seen the film, so I had no idea what they were talking about, from the short documentary on filming locations:




Apparently, walking and filming the Exorcist steps is a popular past time: "Drunk white guy climbing the steps from the movie."




"Exorcist" author, William Peter Blatty, is a Georgetown alumnus and wants Vatican to excommunicate Georgetown from Will Thomas May 14, 2014 Fox report "Is Georgetown University not Catholic enough? Vatican responds to petition from 'Exorcist' author

"William Peter Blatty, wrote the Vatican voicing his concerns that the Georgetown campus has become too liberal, calling both students and faculty out for not being aligned enough to the Catholic faith.
Now, the Vatican has responded by saying his complaints are well-founded."

Why go to a Catholic Jesuit university if you want to be an atheist?

“One of the things I like about Georgetown is religion is what you want it to be,” said senior Alex Kyrillos. “So if you’re someone who wants that to be a huge part of your life, the resources are there for you. But if it's not something you want to be a huge part of your college experience, you also have the option.”

Seems Blatty was working with Cardinal Newman Society to petition Vatican, from article Michelle Boorstein May 13, 2014 "Washington Post" article "Vatican responds to Georgetown petition by ‘Exorcist’ author William Peter Blatty"


"The effort was brought by Blatty and a group connected with the Cardinal Newman Society. The campaign represents the frustration of some conservative Catholics who want to see Catholic institutions more orthodox and uniform. They rally around Ex Corde Ecclesiae, a 1990 document by Pope John Paul II that gives instructions to colleges and universities about how to keep their Catholic identities." 

Saturday, May 5, 2012

#Obama = Lucy van Pelt & also, possibly, Satan



I was just rereading The Parables of Peanuts by Robert L. Short. It struck me that Obama is very Lucy van Pelt-like in his über-narcissism:
Charlie Brown: Does it bother you to think that there may be people around who dislike you?

Lucy van Pelt: Dislike ME ? How could anyone possibly dislike ME ? There's nothing to dislike! Jealous maybe . . . Yes I could understand that. . . I can see how someone could be jealous of me . . . but dislike? No, that's just not possible. . .
Admittedly, most politicians are narcissists to some degree. In his case, he seems to have drunk his own Kool-Aid. Obama and his acolytes have a convenient credit/debit system of moral bookkeeping. Everything good in the world is entirely due to Obama's beneficence existence. Everything evil and bad is due to entirely to George W. McBushHaliburtonHitler and his RethugliKKKans. I concur whole heartedly with the good Baron Münchhausen
Clinton: “Suppose the Navy Seals had gone in there, suppose they had been captured or killed. The downside would have been horrible for him”. For him [Obama]? It’s always about him.
and as a caution to squishy, Rockefeller, go-along to get-along, country club Republicans, the Dems are also similar to Lucy in taking away the football a.k.a. promising one thing and doing another e.g.  promising spending cuts if Republicans agree to tax hikes. The over the horizon spending cuts, for some reason, never materialize, but the tax hikes are always immediate, as Regan learned to regret:

As for raising taxes, Reagan acceded to a big tax increase in 1982 only after a historic, much larger cut in 1981. He gave a little back after finding a shift in the political climate on Capitol Hill too difficult to resist. (He later regretted surrendering, since the budget cuts promised in exchange for the tax hike never materialized.)




Additionally, Short suggests that the Peanuts character, Lucy, is possibly the personification of Lucifer, or Lucy-fer. Of course, I'm not suggesting that Obama's the anti-Christ. However, that might explain why he demanded that all of the crosses, and the mere mention of Jesus' name, be covered over when he spoke at Georgetown Catholic College:



"I am Barack Hussein Obama. Thou shalt have no other Obamas before me"
Georgetown, A.O., Anno Obamani, w/ cross covered w/ black triangle


Georgetown, B.O., Before Obama, with cross visible

From ALLAHPUNDIT  APRIL 16, 2009 "Hot Air" article "Christian symbol covered up during Obama’s Georgetown speech" Dreadnought223 comment:

"There can be only one!!!
Barry doesn’t like having competition for the title of Messiah."
Somewhat ott, I found it not ironic that the writers for "Elementary" episode "Dirty Laundry" asserted that Georgetown is the university of choice for Russian spies:





Friday, April 17, 2009

IHS vs IH Sigma

In a post that discussed Obama's request to cover up Christian imagery at Catholic Georgetown University, the etymology of "IHS" was also discussed:

the most common Christogram is "IHS" or "IHC", derived from the first three letters of the Greek name of Jesus, iota-eta-simga


Is this mixing of two different alphabets an early example of PC multi-culturalism? Or couldn't the Romans find a sigma symbol on their keyboards? /sarc