'Mother' should not be used to describe a bomb, Pope says

[rug]

22. The short answer is no. Here's the longer answer.

The OP is about the use of the largest nonnuclear weapon against human targets.

It is not about a mid-nineteenth century kidnapping that was one of the favorite anti-Catholic subjects of the Know Nothing Party.

This is Democratic Underground not Know Nothing Underground, notwithstanding your very recent registration.

Given the interests expressed in your recent posts, read the difference in those positions.

The Know Nothing Party Platform

The 1840s and 1850s saw an enormous increase in the numbers of European immigrants, Irish and Germans especially, arriving on American shores and settling in heavily populated urban areas. Many of these immigrants subsequently became active in local politics, much to the vexation of old-stock, "real" Americans. The result was a renaissance in the formation of "nativistic" societies—small, shadowy, anti-foreign, anti-Catholic organizations, a number of which banded together in the early 1850s to form the American Party. Popularly known as "Know-Nothings" (after the response members gave when interrogated about their pro-protestant, pro-native associations), the American Party rode a wave of xenophobia and racism (not to mention political turmoil among the Whigs and Democrats, the major parties of the day) into the mid-1850s. Among the Know-Nothing's dubious political ideas was a call to extend the five-year naturalization period to twenty-one years, as well as a proscription against the holding of elected offices by Catholics and foreigners. Like much of the country, however, the Know-Nothings soon divided over the explosive slavery issue, and the power of the party quickly waned.

http://www.encyclopedia.com/history/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/american-party-platform-1856

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My concern is with cult leaders like this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Charles_Levin

and with assholes who still spew his crap no matter how long he's been dead.