tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8079638534681911453.post6058782331474571701..comments2023-12-16T03:52:49.952-05:00Comments on Informed Catholic Voter: Did I Just Hear What I Think I Heard? (Part 2)Informed Catholic Voterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17593283611443106073noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8079638534681911453.post-66906873136580338552012-07-11T17:40:49.051-04:002012-07-11T17:40:49.051-04:00You can probably get away with it here in your blo...You can probably get away with it here in your blog. Although it's a step away from calling a chinese restaurant and ordering 'flied lice" because Don Rickles made a joke. Seriously though, this blog represents itself as informed and Catholic. This mocking use of a culturally Jewish feature is caricature; and, even without the clear statements from the Vatican encouraging otherwise, the use is neither informed nor properly catholic.<br /><br />I can't see where i wrote that you accused the congresswoman did anything wrong. I also never said what Romney did was wrong. I wrote that your analysis was wrong. You equated certain of the congresswoman's investments with certain of Romney's accounts. Given that the two are nothing alike, your analysis and therefore the conclusion are wrong.Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12931818357536568075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8079638534681911453.post-55284160130912363962012-07-11T10:23:05.820-04:002012-07-11T10:23:05.820-04:00If Bill Maher can get away with it, why not me? Af...If Bill Maher can get away with it, why not me? After all, I am an aspiring comedienne. There is nothing denigrating about using words that are spot on in describing something. For you to say that using Yiddish is denigrating is in itself denigrating to the Jewish dialect. <br />As for the investment part, you are completing missing the point, as most liberals do. I did not say Wasserman-Schultz did anything wrong. Neither did Romney do anything wrong. Obama and Schultz are simply trying to pit rich against poor, in accord with their Saul Alinsky tactic of divide and conquer. (Wasserman Schultz is herself rich. Why doesn't she put her money where her mouth is?) Wall Street versus the poor. Black versus white. Female versus male. Pro-abortion versus pro-life. Old versus young. Christian against Jew, Jew against Muslim. You name it, and they will drive a wedge in. It's their only chance to succeed since they cannot tout anything they have done to strengthen the economy or encourage private sector job growth or build up the Nation that has revolutionized the world over the last 200 years. Saddest of all is that people fall for the divisive, partisan tactics. It makes us all worse people.Informed Catholic Voterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17593283611443106073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8079638534681911453.post-68384766620700088262012-07-11T01:15:48.159-04:002012-07-11T01:15:48.159-04:00I'm not sure I understand again. Is having $1...I'm not sure I understand again. Is having $1000 invested in an international mutual fund as part of a 401K that holds less than $15000 is equal to - or even equivalent to - placing millions of dollars directly in a swiss bank account and shell companies in the cayman islands and bermuda? I'm not a financial expert, but it doesn't seem so on the surface.<br /><br />As far as the use of Yiddish to denegrate the Jewish congresswoman, the members of the Council of Nicea (325) would probably call it proper Catholic rehetoric. However, while the Vatican Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews (1985) would recognize it as a Christian feature, but it seems they might not approve: "Mutual knowledge must be encouraged at every level. There is evident in particular a painful ignorance of the history and traditions of Judaism, of which only negative aspects and often caricature seem to form part of the stock ideas of many Christians." This use of language seems to be more related to 'negative aspects and..caricature' than it is born from 'mutual knowledge'.Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12931818357536568075noreply@blogger.com