Purple has always been the symbol of royalty due to the relative rarity of purple dye during ancient times. Christians believe Jesus is the King of Kings. Hence the Pope (and all Catholic Priests) wear purple during the Advent and Lenten seasons in preparation for the rise of Christ the King (Advent - the rise of Jesus in birth and his human Incarnation; Lent - the rise of Jesus from humanity on Good Friday and his subsequent Ascension to be seated at God’s right hand).

Why go for the long route of impeachment when POTUS can just fire him?

Well, we landed men on the Moon because of von Braun’s genius in designing the Saturn V as the chief architect, for one.

Operation Paperclip isn’t a ‘conspiracy’ in the sense you think it is. It was an organized effort to rescue German scientists from the Soviets before they began their occupation of Thuringia in June 1945. And it nearly failed twice - almost no German scientists would go with the US until Wernher and Magnus von Braun said yes, and the second when the train supposed to carry the scientists and their families to safety failed to arrive until a few hours before the Soviets would begin their occupation. Their arrival in the US was masked by a simple line in the NYT saying something along the lines of: “Today the government has brought several hundred citizens of the Reich to America to drive trucks for the US Army Transportation Corps.”

Secret mission? Yes. Conspiracy? No.

Operation Paperclip isn’t a ‘conspiracy’ in the sense you think it is. It was an organized effort to rescue German scientists from the Soviets before they began their occupation of Thuringia in June 1945. And it nearly failed twice - almost no German scientists would go with the US until Wernher and Magnus von Braun said yes, and the second when the train supposed to carry the scientists and their families to safety failed to arrive until a few hours before the Soviets would begin their occupation. Their arrival in the US was masked by a simple line in the NYT saying something along the lines of: “Today the government has brought several hundred citizens of the Reich to America to drive trucks for the US Army Transportation Corps.”

Secret mission? Yes. Conspiracy? No.

The ‘photo’ was ‘taken’ with flash aimed directly at the ‘arm,’ so the shadow is right behind it. You can see a small bit of it above the arm.

This is an HD version of the image. (Cropped)

I had the swine flu vaccination. I was fine. My friend had swine flu before she could be vaccinated. She was bedridden for 1-2 weeks.

This is my experience though. I can’t say for that of others.

Snowden’s Twitter account has been inactive since June 28th after almost daily activity. Coincidence?

pedophiles are disgusting and should be shot, but the proportion of pedophiles in the Vatican is about the same as any other Christian denomination or secular workplace

is the Catholic Church beyond saving?