White smoke ...

To all who are interested ...

About an hour ago, 'white smoke' from the Sistine Chapel showed what everybody in Rome was looking for... a new pope has been elected.

This is the elected, the German cardinal Ratzinger - now pope Benedict XVI:

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An interesting, quick result.

Now at the risk of stepping into the other verboten area (politics) 'W' can begin talking about private Social Security accounts again, since the USA is no longer 'distracted' by the proceedings in Rome.

Have Fun,

Joseph "Torquemada" Ratzinger will be a transition Pope, IMHO...Don't get me wrong, I am Catholic (living here, what else) and happy that we have a Pope again. Im just a little afraid about JR positions. But if he starts a reverse jihad, I'll be with him anyway.

Wow that was fast. I check my news site just a couple hours ago and the last news they had was black smoke. Wow...really fast, I expected it to take longer.

Hey now, religion and politics in one thread. Any misbehaving will get this puppy locked/deleted in no time at all.

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