On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 3:40 AM, Udhay Shankar N <ud...@pobox.com> wrote: > I find the association with fine, upstanding world statesmen like > Haitian dictator “Baby Doc” Duvalier icky, but not otherwise worthy of > the kind of bile I spewed earlier. >
And the Keating 5. > The one single thing that (for me) pushes her beyond the pale is this: > her virulent opposition, in both word and deed, to birth control - to > some of the most desperately poor people in the world. Uncounted > hundreds (or thousands) of people exist in utter misery today who owe > their being and state directly to her words and deeds. I consider this > truly *evil*, and believe that her net contribution to the world is a > significant increase in the sum of misery in it. > When Diana was divorcing Charles, Teresa apparently said: Poor thing, she has suffered so much. In public though, she was always opposed to divorce, following the Catholic doctrine - example of another hypocrisy, the titled can do what they want, but the masses must suffer and repent. Salil.