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Barbie® Dia de Muertos doll
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ROME — [The new Black American (Creole)] Pope Leo XIV declared himself a Roman on Sunday as he completed the final ceremonial steps cementing his role as the bishop of Rome.
He speaks perfect U.S. English like no pope in history
[Is Pope Leo unaware of the prophecy of Saint Malachy, The Prophecy of the Popes, or is he admitting his identity as an antichrist figure, or is he shoving it in the faces of conspiracy theorists to mock them because he's actually the nicest guy anyone would ever want to meet, particularly at a ballgame in Chi Town or a Peruvian temple in the former Incan Empire?]
Petro, you are my Rocko; I make you 1st Papa
COMMENTARY: A "Peter" is a Rock (Petra), which is the foundation of the Church, which is a pope, as the first patriarch (pope) was. Perhaps to be a Peter is simply to be a Pope, so to say, "I am a Roman" is tantamount to teasing the world by saying, "I am Peter the Roman"(Petrus Romanus).
New Orleans Creole is more than Black. It's color mixed.
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I would of done a bester job then thiz Black Guy
The first American pope formally took possession of the St. John Lateran Basilica, which is Rome’s cathedral and seat of the diocese, with an evening Mass attended by Roman priests and faithful.
In his homily, Pope Leo said he wanted to listen to them “in order to learn, understand, and decide things together.” One of the many titles that Leo assumed when he was elected May 8, 2025, was "bishop of Rome."
No, Sinead, give this one a chance first!
Given his responsibilities running the 1.4-billion strong universal Catholic Church [or what remains of the Holy Roman Empire], popes [who serve as CEOs of the corporation] delegate the day-to-day governance of running of the diocese of Roman to a vicar.
Sunday’s ceremonies at the St. John Lateran and a stop at St. Mary Major basilicas follow Pope Leo’s visit last week to the St. Paul Outside the Walls Basilica.
Together with St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican, the four papal basilicas are the most important basilicas in the West. [The Vatican is its own country within Italy's Rome, called the Holy See or sometimes Vatican City, a powerful city-state that owes no allegiance to Italy.]
Peter, chief of the Church? AI archeology storytelling on Bethsaida
Who rules Rome rules the world.
Rome’s Mayor Roberto Gualtieri welcomed Pope Leo first at the steps to City Hall, noting that his May 8th election fell during a Holy Year, an event occurring every 25 years to invite pilgrims to Rome.
The city underwent two years of traffic-clogging public works projects to prepare and expects to welcome upward of 30 million people in 2025. More:
Hey, can I be the next pope? - Get real, Don. - C'mon, Jorgie, who cares? Can I be Antipope?
(CBS News) April 26, 2025: Who will be the next pope? Here's a look at some of the top possible papal candidates as the cardinals prepare for the papal conclave (Latin for "with key," i.e., "behind locked doors"), which will take place in early May, likely after Cinco de Mayo. They promise to start on May 7, 2025.
Hungary is a landlocked Central European country not far from Italy (ancient Rome). Spanning much of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and Slovenia to the southwest, and Austria to the west.
Hungary lies within the drainage basin of the Danube River and is dominated by great lowland plains. It has a population of 9.6 million, consisting mostly of ethnic Hungarians and a significant Romani minority.
Hungarian is the official language; it is among the few in Europe that lies outside the Indo-European family of languages [13].
Budapest is the country's capital and its largest city, the dominant cultural and economic center [14, 15]. Prior to the foundation of the Hungarian state, various peoples settled in the territory of present-day Hungary, including the Romans, Celts, Huns, Germanic peoples, Avars, and Slavs.
Hungarian statehood is traced to the Principality of Hungary, which was established in the late 9th century by Álmos and his son Árpád through the conquest of the Carpathian Basin [16, 17].
King Stephen I ascended the throne in 1000 and forcibly converted his realm into a Christian kingdom.
The medieval Kingdom of Hungary was a European power, reaching its height in the Late Middle Ages [18]. MoreCould anyone from modern Hungary be reasonably referred to as a "Roman"? If so and such a person bore the name "Peter," that would make that man "Peter the Roman" for predictive purposes, making Saint Malachy close enough in his ancient prediction.
The funniest thing about the upcoming papal conclave is the FACT that anyone can be installed as pope. One only has to have been confirmed as a Catholic after First Communion, which doesn't actually mean one has to be a Catholic, just in official records. One could be confirmed now, before beginning. One could be the most popular kind of Catholic: Lapsed. Unlapse or say you're back. Oh, yeah, though -- most Catholics don't qualify. Boys only. It's an Old Boys' Club. It's the original corporation, all top-down hierarchy and a strict Patriarchy. Even though it can be anyone, the cardinals always pick a fellow cardinal. Go figure.
Prophecy of the Popes: Petrus Romanus (aka a dark skinned "Peter the Roman"?) Says who? Says Irish Catholic Saint Malachy: Prophetia Sancti Malachiae Archiepiscopi, de Summis Pontificibus (the "Prophecy of Saint-Archbishop Malachy, concerning the Supreme Pontiffs")
Never mind the Virgin Mary. Like the name of a ship, most of which are by convention named after females, she's just for show. Anyway, it has already been decided, and this conclave business is all for show. Heard about the smoke? The color of it will tell if it's black or white. Isn't that a lovely imperial Roman custom? Who knew the Holy (See)Roman Empire (religious arm), as part of the Ring of Power and the Empire of the City, still ruled the world alongside Washington DC (military arm) and London's high-street (financial arm)?
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Because there is no longer an Office of the Devil's Advocate in the Vatican like there used to be, even this questionable pope gets to be a saint at the drop of a hat if the next pope, Peter the Roman, wills it. Catholicism, it's not like it used to be.
Thank you, thank you... - Yeah, yeah, that was JD. Russia gets Crimea, period
(Wyatt's Metal) May 4, 2024: Danny Elfman headlines Sick New World 2024 metal fest in Las Vegas
Which will it be? We'll have both. But when?
Poor rock 'n roll in all its forms. It needs music festivals to enjoy, and these fests are outside, but the climate chaos is making that impossible because of cancellations. This is what science would have us believe. Recently in LA, the big Beach Life Festival got cut short due to high winds and fear of the safety of attendees. The corporation behind it claims it will provide partial refunds. In a wet year, during the cool/cold spring, someone thought it was a good idea to go to the beach? The beach is for the summer because most days are good enough for the sand but not for the water. Only in the summer can one expect to have good weather, warm temps, low winds, few clouds, and other unpleasant symptoms of the off-season. That's why there is a "season." It's not as if a summer festival got ruined by unseasonal conditions.
Death at devil Drake and Travis Scott's TX fest
More festivals than anyone can keep up with
A new analysis suggests that changes in climate are increasingly leading to disruptions or cancellations at music festivals.
What's happening?
As detailed by Inside Climate News, crowd safety researcher Milad Haghani discovered that extreme weather canceled or disrupted at least 22 music festivals in Australia between 2022 and 2023, a significant uptick from the 10 impacted from 2013 to 2019.
"I think it's very clear that it's happening at an increasing rate, and the severity of the events, the impact of the events are more tangible now," said Haghani, who began his analysis after a series of weather-caused disruptions in the United States.
Help! It's too hot by the stage!!
Why is this important?
While not all severe weather at concerts is the result of a warming planet, as Inside Climate News pointed out, the scientific community agrees that rising worldwide temperatures have caused more frequent and powerful extreme weather events.
At music festivals or concerts, which often take place outdoors, these extremes can prove deadly. In November, dangerously high temperatures in Brazil led to the postponement of a Taylor Swift concert after the death of a fan during the event.
It's hot indoors, but at least there's shade.
The Associated Press (AP) later confirmed that heat exhaustion was the cause.
"Extreme heat events are more extreme than ever," NOAA scientist Stephanie Herring told NPR after the American Meteorological Society released its annual report in 2023.
"Research is showing they're likely to become the new normal in the not-so-distant future."
'Nature' becomes an official Spotify artist (WION)
A new initiative will recognize nature as an official artist
Last year it was way too hot, too! (SNW Fest)
Inside Climate News also pointed to a hailstorm in Colorado that injured nearly 100 people and a wave of heat-related illnesses at an Ed Sheeran concert in Pittsburgh as other notable instances of weather-linked safety hazards.
What can be done about this?
Haghani explained to Inside Climate News that further preparation and clear communication from event staff could help attendees stay safe in extreme weather, including heat waves.
"One of the responsibilities of the organizer is to make [free] hydration accessible to people," he said. "I think that is one of the key factors and easy fixes."
2023r's Sick New World 2023 was a mega nu-metal jamboree in Vegas
(Wyatt's Metal) What happened at Sick New World 2023 in Las Vegas?
Other experts pointed to the need for plenty of shade, water misting stations, and accessible areas to shelter from the elements.
Alcohol [sugar] and caffeine also impact our bodies' abilities to regulate itself in high temperatures, so avoiding these drinks in severe conditions can help keep you safe.
Whales are ingesting up to 10 million pieces of microplastic per day: ‘Like training for a marathon and eating only jellybeans’
REACT (Gen Z reacts to Nu Metal), March 2024; Wyatt at Sick New World 2024 and 2023; ABC News; Sky News, Astroworld accident 2022; The Cool Down via MSN.com, May 2024; Seth Auberon, Crystal Quintero, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
America is one big lie and we are fools for believing in it
(Mr.President 420) This is a composite by Mr.President 420 of his favorite George Carlin standup comedy. It consists of portions of
his hero George Carlin's various specials,
assembled to help me explain the title.
This is pure truth and much like the audience,
everyone would rather acknowledge it and just laugh than to do anything to fix it.
Do yourself a favor: watch it then decide if you, too, are going
to continue to accept that this is what the world is because it's all people allow it to be.
George Carlin, Some People Are Stupid (Parental Advisory), July 17, 2013, via Mr.President 420; Seth Auberon, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Is it true as they say that there are two kinds of Swifties, Gaylors vs. Hetlors, some sure Taylor is a secret lesbian on the LGBTQIA+ spectrum and others insisting she's 100% straight and Christian and not a hypocrite
Taylor ‘Nazi Barbie’Swift drops clues for new Tortured Poets Department album
Who's T-Swift? She's a U.S. royal like Meghan
(TODAY) April 18, 2024: Travis Kelce's lucky charm Taylor Swift’s new album, The Tortured Poets Department, is set to be released Friday (right at midnight on Thursday night) and speculation continues to grow over music industry public relations and marketing department clues for lyrics, song titles, and the album’s first music video. An alleged leak of the new project prompted many Swifties to ask fellow fans not to disrespect her work by being greedy but to instead wait for the official release so Taylor can make the most money and control her own narrative and corporate branding. NBC’s Emilie Ikeda reports for TODAY. #TaylorSwift#Music
Are you serious, Mom? I prefer Olivia's music.
For lesbians, mother-daughter incest survivors, and women with dogs who hump their leg, the Swift Corporation is putting out a new album in vinyl to make a killing at Target or Walmart or some big box retailer with a lucrative exclusive contract.
Buy the store version and get extra tracks of "Nazi Barbie" passing wind, burping, struggling like only tortured poets struggle (to come up with AI-quality songs for the masses) with just a touch of narcissism, juvenile pettiness, self-aggrandizing "Ah shucks, I'm just a country girl and pro-LGBTQIA+ Biden-voting, Christian on the right side of history," and a je ne sais quoi, or maybe an"oh 🙄 brother" factor.
Seacrest's so excited he sent Sisanie to promote it
But for dyed in the polyester fans, tune in to Los Angeles' "Swift FM" (KISS 102.7 FM) right at midnight tonight to hear cuts from the album curated by Miss TrayLor herself, Taylor Swift. It will be replayed tomorrow and then for the rest of our lives like a bad Madonna or Milquetoast release. Never has so much been done by so many for so little.
I'm still a child at head. I never grew up.
Song 1, "Fortnight," features Post Malone to help her sell the Lana Del Rey sound-rip off. As the first track, it should be the first single on the record. Is that how it works? Or will it be Post Malone's fans wanting to see what he did (which ain't much) that'll drive sales? "It's very fatalistic," Taylor claims, because it's about fatalism (the anti-karma idea that everything that happens is fixed in advance by fate).
Song 2, "Tortured Poet's Department," is the same gaar-bahge, complaining, talking about things a highschooler would be getting over by graduation at the latest. Are any college coeds aware of her? They like Miley Cyrus, but Swift seems like it's composed by AI for children, nothing much catchy about it like that "sick fat beat" song.
Song 3 is a metaphor, whining about relationships. She's a one trick pony going on about denial and toxicity: "My Boy Only Breaks His Toys." This song is more promising, with a "whoa whoa whoa" refrain and a new drum machine setting, some inflection in the singing, lacking emotional depth or a hook but good confection, instantly forgettable. Eight-year-olds are bound to like it.
Song 4, "Down Bad," is another metaphor, about alien abduction from the time she was "love bombed" by a narcissist then dumped. She's crying, talking about being a suicidal teen too depressed to get out of bed if the ETs won't come back for her. She sure must've gotten her heart broken a lot to whine about it song after song. Female country music singers must hate her. "What if I was in love?" she asks and has no one to tell her to use the subjunctive: "What if I were in love?" She dumbs it down for the kids and the Heartland maybe?
Song 5, "So Long London," is a dreamy kind of Lana Del Rey tremolo talker. Who taught her rhyme? Teach her more. Rhyming couplets of pining, longing, yearning, and being pathetic and clingy but indignant and hot and I will survive, it's a tragedy. Are Lana's attorney's tuned in? This song seems actionable. Big artists have gotten in trouble for less. How hard can it be to write one catchy tune?
Song 6, "But Daddy I Love Him," a string of facile rhymes, end of the world love lost with some emotion but "precocious" "tendrils"? It's like how Shakira had her thesaurus out to help her translate from Spanish to English for Laundry Service. What's Tay Tay's excuse? There are ten more of these junk heap discards pulled out, dusted off, and assembled into "sanctimonious" "soliloquies"? This is the least bad one so far.
Song 7, "Fresh Out the Slammer," is a metaphor of being in jail or prison and getting out to run to a sweetheart with more lameitude in rhyme, as if she finds herself clever and listening to so much Lana that she's drenched in the talent of a single-minded vision and not getting it in any dimension but one, superficial.
Song 8, "Florida," featuring Florence and the Machine, about reinventing herself after heartbreak (again). Where would anyone go to blend in and reinvent oneself? America's dangling participle peeing in the Gulf, right, T-Swift? Florence adds some verve at least and so meta. "Is that a bad thing to say in a song?" "Florida is one hell of a drug," and we drink -- and here the rhyming problem comes up again (yet again), just taking a bunch of rhyming words and say them close to each other like a rapper in the flow just pulling anything in to fill space. Short and sweet. If Lana doesn't sue, this is a good one. Taylor has found the secret, feature Ice Spice, Florence, Post Malone, or anyone to extend her range.
The craze behind tall blonde beauty | Harvard lecture, $64 bil in concert revenue | All About Taylor Swift
(LASSI Studio) March 1, 2024: A lecture called "Taylor Swift and Her World" opened at Harvard. Taylor's concerts generated a $63.5 billion economic impact, also known as "Swiftonomics." She has won the Grammy for Album of the Year three times. This is a video on the ultimate [AI] songstress.
Song 9, "Guilty As Sin," is about crying, whining about a boy, using big words ("paradox"), and having no success in relationships. Is this causing all the bad relationships in the country, or are there so many bad relationships that Taylor is "the voice of an unhappy generation"?
Song 10, "Just Hold Me" (?), a sad song asking, "Who's afraid of little old me? You should be!" The way she makes everything so obvious an pat, the name of this song must be "Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?" because she repeats, so emo and slightly goth with imagery of death, drugs, and depression. There's something here; I can see how this one could be included in 1980s flashbacks or retro emo song lists with what sounds like a live drummer.
Song 11, "I Can Fix Him, No Really I Can," more complaining about a man she loves ("He's my man... I can fix him, no, really, I can.") This is Lana gone West, a real song, a rip off. Does no one else listen to enough Lana to see it? How could the Eras Tour stand having three hours of this pissant urine?
Song 12, "LMNL" (?), more complaining about a bad man she loves against her will, and she adores him, and she criticizes him, and oy vey, does she never stop complaining? This is cr*p, but kids love cr*p, so it will be interesting which of her masterpieces the focus groups will tell the corporate stations to put on rotation and overplay.
Song 13, "I Can Do It With a Broken Heart," almost danceable at the crying party, when we go to comfort Patty who got dumped by Brad. "You're better than him, Patty! Get out of bed and shake him off. C'mon let's go dance and celebrate our broken hearts. It's all a test. You're a tough kid." Wow, it's Sweet Valley High for every song, the weak sauce, celebrating the miserable. At least it's almost over.
Song 14, "The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived," about a Jehovah Witness suit wearing guy who tries to buy some pills from her drug dealing friends, complaining and complaining, calling a man small, with venom and anger become more depression and resentment. This song is dangerous because it's really a crying complaint...
Song 15, "The Alchemy," is about a boy she is not happy with and is telling him she'll get over him and recover and be better than ever for the bad experience. Whew, what a slog. Were there 100 songs like this, and these are the winners? One has to feel what one sings for the singing to sound good. So does she feel this way all the time, year after year, track after track, or is it an act and what the fans want? It's odd to see someone with such a fixation. When Lana does it, singing about dark love all the time, she finds a way to make it interesting. Hooray, it's over, just one more to go:
Song 16, "Clara Beau," is about a girl she's comparing herself to, a remarkable Clara Beau, bringing back themes of dazzling, sparking, rusting as a kind of theme, shining, eclipsing, dying, exaggerating, New York and a small town girl. Taylor in the big city. "You look like Taylor Swift in this life," she says. Could that be right? She's so full of herself that Clara Beau is Tailor Slow? It's SO deep. What was the two theme all the buildup hinted at? We'll leave that to the kiddies on TikTok to figure that out. Is this the world we've come to, violent Kelce with fainting waif Taylor, American royalty? Bleh. 🤢🤮
The first song to be played following all of the others is "Florida" (feat. Florence) and some interesting kind of drumming or bass tapping. Yes, this is one of the better ones with its big bang drumming and Lana theme.
Seth Auberon, Ashley Wells, Crystal Q., Wisdom Quarterly; Sisanie (from the Ryan Seacrest Morning Show on KISS 102.7 FM) with fellow iheart.com DJ from the Tim Conway Show, 4/18/24
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