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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYou know, the cardinals are about to sequester themselves...
Which kind of reminds me that the rule used to be that, when the cardinals were sequestered to choose the new pope, their rations were cut as the conclave went on until they were starved into selecting a pope.
Does this suggest something we could do with Congress?
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You know, the cardinals are about to sequester themselves... (Original Post)
spinbaby
Mar 2013
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hobbit709
(41,694 posts)1. What was it Colbert suggested
Something about a monkey.
TexasTowelie
(112,453 posts)2. Pictures from the Catican:
The conclave of cardinals.
A papabile candidate.
Disqualified by the Cat-holic church.
The winner is...
Soon the Cat holic church will assemble a conclave of cardinals to select the new pope by secret ballot. The conclave has been the procedure for choosing the pope for more than half of the time the church has been in existence, and is the oldest ongoing method for choosing the leader of an institution. A two-thirds supermajority vote is required to elect the new pope, which also requires acceptance from the person elected.
Secrecy is maintained during the conclave; the cardinals as well as the conclavists and staff are forbidden to disclose any information relating to the election. Cardinal electors may not correspond or converse with anyone outside the conclave, by post, radio, telephone or otherwise and eavesdropping is an offense punishable by excommunication.
The process of counting the ballots is somewhat complicated so to condense the process; if the supermajority of the ballots is achieved then the ballots are burned to produce a white smoke. If a supermajority of votes is not achieved then CATNIP is added so that the smoke appears dark.
global1
(25,272 posts)3. Seems Like The Only Way To Starve Congress Is To.....
not have any issues presented to them that they can be partisan about. They wouldn't know what to do if they couldn't take sides.