Nauseating. Apparently the Catholic Church is as screwed-up as the political left in the USA.
Notre Dame Cathedral slammed over rebuild plans turning it into 'woke theme park'
The cathedral was destroyed by fire in 2014
Critics are bashing the rebuild of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, accusing renovators of turning the 850-year-old church into a "woke theme park."
Under the new plans to rebuild the fire-ravaged church, confessional boxes, altars and several classical sculptures will be replaced by art murals, sound and lighting effects, and room for "emotional spaces," according to the Telegraph.
Visitors will also be able to travel along a "discovery trail" that beams scripture onto the walls in a variety of languages, including Mandarin Chinese.
One of the sanctuaries in the new church will reportedly be dedicated to the environment.
"It's as if Disney were entering Notre Dame," award-winning Paris architect Maurice Culot told the Telegraph. "What they are proposing to do to Notre Dame would never be done to Westminster Abbey or Saint Peter's in Rome. It's a kind of theme park and very childish and trivial given the grandeur of the place."
The Catholic church claims the renovations will make the building accessible and understandable to people all over the world. One critic countered that the renovations will turn the church into a "politically correct Disneyland."
"Can you imagine the administration of the Holy See allowing something like this in the Sistine Chapel?" said a senior source with access to the proposed plans. "It would be unimaginable. We are not in an empty space here.
A pigeon flies over Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, Friday, April 19, 2019. Rebuilding Notre Dame, the 800-year-old Paris cathedral devastated by fire, will cost billions of dollars as architects, historians and artisans work to preserve the medieval landmark. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
"This is political correctness gone mad," the source added. "They want to turn Notre Dame into an experimental liturgical showroom that exists nowhere else, whereas it should be a landmark where the slightest change must be handled with great care."
The cathedral was almost completely destroyed by a devastating fire in April of 2019, and hundreds of millions of dollars have been donated to rebuild it. French President Emmanuel Macron has set a goal of 2024 to allow visitors inside.
+++++++++++++++++++
I HAVE A DEAR FRIEND AND FELLOW MEMO READER WHOSE FAMILY WERE EXPELLED FROM CUBA. HE HOLDS A SIMILAR VIEW.
THOUGH BIDEN STATED HE WOULD RELEASE THE FILES, HE HAS, AS OF THIS DATE, NOT DONE SO.
A Castro-Loving Communist Murdered JFK—End of Story
++++++++++++
Americans Are Still Trapped in Afghanistan, and the Biden Administration Lied About How Many
+++++++++++
James O’Keefe: Latest case of weaponizing the justice system
+++
As Biden’s presidential term drags on, he continues to demonstrate increasingly concerning levels of delusions. The president claims his administration...
++++++
Something that never happens in America anymore is saving two Ohio counties in free fall
MARTINS FERRY, Ohio — What happened in this Belmont County city never happens anymore in Appalachia. In fact, it rarely happens anywhere in America. Two years after the East Ohio Regional Hospital shut its doors after 114 years of serving the people of this region, the doors opened again this spring. “Nobody opens hospitals anymore,” said Bernie Albertini, the administrator and chief operating officer at East Ohio. The Wheeling native, who has been running hospitals most of his professional career, came out of early retirement when Dayton native Dr. John Johnson decided to invest in the community and reopen the facility this spring.
The astonishing development brought more than 500 jobs — 100 more than had worked in the hospital previously — as well as hope and life to a community that had feared the closing might be the final straw that could break the proverbial camel’s back.
Mr. Albertini, a fellow with the American College of Healthcare Executives, said he called the organization looking for anyone who had opened a hospital recently; they essentially said, “Good luck.”
When East Ohio closed, Mr. Albertini said the news and impact were devastating in a region that has become all too used to loss. Belmont County and neighboring Jefferson County are among several in the Ohio Valley that have suffered significant population losses since the slow death of American manufacturing began in the 1970s. Population numbers plunged again in the latest census, with Belmont losing an additional 5.5 percent of its people and Jefferson 6.4 percent. That population loss will bring more loss — specifically in political clout in Washington because the state will lose another congressional seat.
The closing of East Ohio Hospital left locals without easy access to an emergency room, doctors’ offices and surgical procedures, a lack of access Mr. Albertini says is an epidemic in rural America.
He admits he had to be nudged a bit to take the daunting job of reviving the defunct regional hospital.
“When I walked into the hospital with a security guard and a flashlight after it had been closed for two years, it was like walking into a post-apocalyptic horror movie, complete with light fixtures hanging from the ceiling and walls peeling away,” he said of the tour he took before he took the job.
Last week, there were nursing students from Jefferson County’s Eastern Gateway Community College doing rounds amid the bustle in the brightly-lit hallways, as well as some fanfare over a Starbucks coffee shop in the lobby about to open.
Mr. Albertini calls the hospital’s reopening a game changer.
Hospitals are economic drivers, he said: “It is not just the people who work here, it is all of the local businesses we do business with; we are a true job creator. We use United Dairy, which is across the street from the hospital, where we get all of our dairy products. We use Martins Ferry Hardware. We buy our office supplies from Borden Office Supply up in East Liverpool,” he said, reeling off a long list of local small businesses the hospital chooses to support over large, out-of-state suppliers.
Whether you walk along the main street of Martins Ferry, or Mingo Junction, or Steubenville, a fascinating mix of deep roots, connection, pride and sense of community competes with the reality of shuttered storefronts and an exodus of young people.
The steel mills that lined the Ohio River here literally rebuilt the country at the dawn of the 20th Century. That industrial vitality is largely gone, and figuring out how to stem the losses has eluded civic leaders for generations.
Both Mr. Albertini here in Belmont and Robert Naylor, the executive director of the Jefferson County Port Authority, are looking at the problems with fresh eyes and an understanding that it takes their communities’ civic leaders and stakeholders working in unison to make change.
Mr. Albertini says the path forward should be recognizing the importance of small steps rather than pining for one big thing to swoop in and save everything.
Mr. Naylor points to two very different yet very important areas of opportunity for his county: higher education and manufacturing.
“JSW Steel in Mingo Junction is working on modernizing their facility; currently they employ over 300 people, and we are working with them on other projects so that they can continue to develop a parcel there and expand their production.” In the same way that Mr. Albertini views the hospital opening, Mr. Naylor also calls JSW’s commitment to expand a “game changer.”
On the benefits of higher education, Mr. Naylor says not only does Eastern Gateway Community College provide workforce development jobs like nursing and welding that keep young people close to their roots, Franciscan University in Steubenville retains some who never considered living here before.
Tommy Valentine, 27, is one of them. The Virginia native came to Steubenville to attend Franciscan; he got his degree in history and never left. “You know, I went to the university and never thought I’d live here. I thought I’d do my four years and then get out. As I got to know this town, felt the sense of community, I never wanted to leave.”
Mr. Valentine, who works for a Catholic political group, said the ability to find an affordable home was also appealing, “and a good quality of life; a lot has been done here in Steubenville to try to revitalize. You know, we’ll never be what it was, but to try to revitalize the town into something good — and be part of it — is what is so appealing.”
Mr. Albertini says correcting the shrinking populations in counties like Belmont and Jefferson is a lot like being in the health-care industry: “It’s a tough business to be in, the margins are low, the equipment to maintain it is expensive.” A lot like small cities in rural counties trying to keep their heads above water.
Mr. Albertini said when Dr. Johnson bought the hospital, he asked him, “Why of all the places in the world he picked this town and this hospital, when everyone else was betting against them?
“He said this was his experiment to prove that if you capitalize a small rural hospital and run it right, it can survive and thrive and actually stand up to — and compete with — the big hospitals of the world,” Mr. Albertini said.
It is an experiment that could possibly apply to the fortunes of small towns across America.
Click here for the full story.
++++++++++++
SENT TO ME BY A FRIEND AND FELLOW MEMO READER.
MY RESPONSE WAS;
THEY ARE MOTIVATED BY SHORT TERM RATIONALE. BUT, LONG TERM I AM TOTALLY IN AGREEMENT WITH YOU. THEY ARE MAKING A LONG TERM ERROR TO SATISFY SHORT TERM issues.
IN A SMALL NATIOn SURROUNDED BY POTENTIAL AND POWERFUL ENEMIES THEY NEED THE BENEFIT OF EVERYONE HAVING TRANING, TECHNICAL SKILLLS AND SKIN IN THE GAME.
ISRAEL NEEDS TO TAKE A LESSON FROM SWITZERLAND AND THE SCANDANAVIA COUNTRIES.
Cancelling Israel’s mandatory service requirement would be a terrible mistake
The comparison between college life in America and Israel is a stark contrast, framed by the requirement of army service here.
BY Douglas Altabef
A recent poll released by Arutz 7 reveals that only a plurality, but less than a majority, of Israelis believes in retaining the requirement for IDF, or, at least, national service. Furthermore, the support in favor of cancelling this integral aspect of Israeli society declines among younger respondents.
The reasons for favoring cancelling mandatory service were not discussed, nor specifically polled for. However, I would hazard the guess that the greater sentiment for cancellation among younger respondents reflects the pervading influence of materialism and self-centeredness that has run amok in the West and has impacted life in Israel as well.
Given political polls that show the strength of Right-wing political convictions among youth, I do not think this poll is a political proxy. Rather, I see it reflecting a desire to be unshackled from a commitment not chosen by the individual.
However, I would argue that this commitment is an integral part of the cohesiveness of Israeli society. I have long maintained that cancelling the draft in America, and not then replacing it with some requirement of national service, was a terrible mistake.
National service takes young people away from themselves at precisely the age when they are both most self-absorbed and most capable of lending a hand.
The comparison between college life in America and Israel is a stark contrast, largely framed by the requirement of army service here.
Campuses in America are all about self-actualization, which may or may not include binge drinking, drug experimentation, and sexual adventurism. Given the growing trend to instill one-sided political and worldview perspectives in students, the university’s traditional mission to challenge students, to engage them in new ways of looking at things (without force feeding them the required outcome) – all of this seems increasingly quaint and anachronistic.
Israeli university students are not looking for safe spaces nor hunting for micro-aggressions, because they have just experienced a world that was not about themselves. They were required to be part of a group, a team, to support the group and its mission and, most definitely, to sideline their own wants and desires.
They were exposed to people unlike themselves, from backgrounds different from their own. They experienced the breadth and depth of Israeli society precisely because the IDF is the great leveler and melting pot of Israeli society.
We would be doing an immense disservice to our youth and our nation to end the current requirements. In the interest of parity and fairness, I would recommend that we actually close the loopholes of required service.
There are undoubtedly a great many young people who can not and should not serve in the IDF. But to serve in one way shape or form seems to me to be essential. Sherut Leumi, traditionally the province of religious young women, has been, and can be further expanded and enhanced to include any who do not serve in the IDF.
This enlarged cohort for Sherut Leumi should include Hareidi youth, who are more than capable of serving in hospitals and schools, or in their own communities.
The IDF has done brilliant and praiseworthy work to provide autistic and mentally challenged youth the opportunity to serve in units that can either play to their strengths or enable them to contribute subject to their own limitations.
This is a noble and magnificent effort and reflects society at its best. Why not take this mindset and adapt it for those physically or psychologically unable to be in the Army?
Anecdotally, I do hear about the efforts of some young people to avoid serving in the IDF, for the simple reason that they don’t want to. Many are from affluent families, so their refusal strikes me as an arrogant recusing of themselves from their fellow citizens and from their society.
I simply do not believe that there is nothing that such young people could be doing to help their nation. Conversely, allowing young people to do nothing, especially when others are sacrificing sends a terrible message to all concerned.
One of the major reasons that the US has fractured into Red and Blue America is that Blue America has little or no awareness of the need for military duty. Serving in the US armed forces has become the province of the poor, those who need job training and can’t otherwise afford it, or that diminishing cohort of those for whom serving their country is a noble tradition.
The vast majority of Americans have no familiarity, understanding nor empathy for military service, and the vital role it plays in maintaining the freedoms and security that allow college youth to be as self-centered as so many are.
Army service is not perfect and not for everyone. But for the vast majority of Israeli youth who are capable of doing it, such service will be a win/win. It will help them mature, help them to see the world in a more mature way, and will give them an experience that they will rightfully take pride in.
For our citizens, a citizens’ army is a source of pride and great identification. We each and all know young people who are, have or will be serving. They are our children, our nieces and nephews, our friends’ children. The bonds between the soldiers and those they protect are real, close, even intimate.
Let us not cancel, but rather, build from the strength of this situation, to expand mandatory national service to all our youth in order to foster social fairness, build cohesion and identification with our Nation.
Douglas Altabef is the Chairman of the Board of Im Tirtzu, Israel’s largest grassroots Zionist organization, and a Director of the Israel Independence Fund. He can be reached at dougaltabef@gmail.com.
++++++++++++
FOR THOSE WHO LIKE HUMOR AND SATIRE YOU WILL LIKE THIS. FOR THOSE WHO NO LONGER CAN LAUGH YOU WILL NOT LIKE THIS. FOR THOSE WHO HATE TRUMP YOU WILL TURN GRUMPIER. FOR THOSE WHO LOVE BIDEN YOU WILL NOT GET TO THE BOTTOM.
A Very Biden Thanksgiving
By: Bill O'Reilly
The Biden family has a tradition of celebrating Thanksgiving on Nantucket, an island belonging to Massachusetts. Very nice place if you can afford to live there. Few can.
The President's crew celebrated at the home of David Rubinstein, 72, a billionaire four times over. Rubinstein made his fortune taking over companies and then reselling them for huge profits. Elizabeth Warren hates him.
The Biden family had plenty of room to roam in the lavish, ocean-front estate worth about $20 million. Hunter Biden, in particular, found the environment much to his liking and was overheard saying: "Man, this is better than Ukraine."
His dad was also overheard asking Rubinstein: "You're richer than Barack's friends on Martha's Vineyard, right?"
The following is a partial transcript of the Thanksgiving dinner conversation. Be forewarned, it came to me from anonymous sources, people widely quoted in the Woodward books. So, I can't vouch. Anyway, here we go.
President Biden: If, in fact, it is Thanksgiving ...
Jill Biden: Joe, honey, it is a fact - it's Thanksgiving!
David Rubinstein: Welcome, everyone, to our beach house. We hope you enjoy the weekend, let the meal begin!
Hunter Biden: I'm expecting a call from Beijing. How's the cell service here?
Jill Biden: Hunter, sweetheart, let's say grace.
Hunter Biden: Grace? She's here?
Jill: No, the prayer.
President Biden: The Pope told me I'm a good Catholic, I know lots of prayers. At least I think that's what he said. He was speaking in rapid Spanish and kept asking if I wanted my parking ticket validated. If, in fact, I drove there which I think I did.
David Rubinstein: We have everything you could possibly want and I paid my fair share of taxes on the groceries which were 40 percent more expensive than last year.
President Biden: Here's the deal, pass the mashed potatoes. You know, David, we Biden's don't pay for anything. Never have. The government picks up everything. Right, Hunter?
Hunter Biden: It's the greatest deal! I don't even have a job!
Jill Biden: Let's pause to think about the less fortunate on this Thanksgiving.
President Biden: Man, that would be everybody. But I'm thinking specifically about Barack and Michelle.
David Rubinstein: So, Mr. President, how's Build Back Better going?
President Biden: What?
Jill Biden: You know, Joe, the five trillion dollar spending bills?
President Biden: That's incredible. Can we really spend that much? How many zeros is that?
Jill Biden: It's going great, David, we should get it passed by the lunar eclipse three years from now.
President Biden: Then everyone would pay their fair share except Hunter. We can't find his offshore accounts in the Caymans.
Hunter: You'll never find them, Dad ... (much chuckling and chortling).
Jill Biden: Oh, you guys! May I raise a Thanksgiving toast: here's to our gracious host, David, who has more money than anyone Michelle even knows!
President Biden: And pays his fair share, that's what Anderson Cooper told me.
Hunter: I may have left another laptop at a pawn shop in Nantucket Town.
Jill Biden: Oh, honey, again?
President Biden: If, in fact, he did, The New York Times will never run the story. That's so great!
Hunter Biden: Just thought of something. Where's Kamala today?
Jill Biden: Your father sent her to the border to give turkeys to the three million, six hundred and thirty thousand migrants who have joined us since the inauguration!
Hunter Biden: So, that means she went to LA.
President Biden: Kamala?
Jill Biden: Your Vice President, cupcake?
President Biden: Yes, yes. So enjoy, everyone. Thanks, David. And to all, a goodnight!
Hunter Biden: That's Christmas, dad.
President Biden: Zzzzzzz
+++++++++++++++++++
MORE HUMOR:
You're An EXTREME Redneck When….
1. You let your 14-year-old daughter smoke at the dinner table in front of her kids.
2. The Blue Book value of your truck goes up and down depending on how much gas is in it.
3. You've been married three times and still have the same in-laws.
4. You think a woman who is out of your league bowls on a different night.
5. You wonder how service stations keep their rest-rooms so clean.
6. Someone in your family died right after saying, 'Hey, guys, watch this.'
7. You think Dom Perignon is a Mafia leader.
8. Your wife's hairdo was once ruined by a ceiling fan.
9. Your junior prom offered day care.
10. You think the last words of the Star-Spangled Banner are ' Gentlemen, start your engines.'
11. You lit a match in the bathroom and your house exploded right off its wheels.
12. The Halloween pumpkin on your porch has more teeth than your spouse.
13. You have to go outside to get something from the fridge.
14. One of your kids was born on a pool table.
15. You need one more hole punched in your card to get a freebie at the House of Tattoos.
16. You can't get married to your sweetheart because there's a law against it.
17. You think loading the dishwasher means getting your wife drunk.
18. Popping the hood involves removing at least two bungee cords.
No comments:
Post a Comment