FREEDOM EDEN: Notre-Dame Fire

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Sunday, December 8, 2024

Notre-Dame Cathedral Reopens

WE ARE SO BACK

The bells of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris rang out this morning for the first time today since 2019's fire

The Cathedral reopens with Mass on December 8th pic.twitter.com/roQS22b0t7
— Catholic Arena (@CatholicArena) November 8, 2024

FRANCE

The first public Mass for 5 years is taking place this morning inside Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris pic.twitter.com/G26wNIJ8Rh
— Catholic Arena (@CatholicArena) December 8, 2024

FRANCE

The first Mass at the reopened Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris pic.twitter.com/nPCPyRRaO0
— Catholic Arena (@CatholicArena) December 8, 2024

The first mass was held at Paris' Notre-Dame cathedral after five years of meticulous restoration pic.twitter.com/iLtUhjwJpw
— Reuters (@Reuters) December 8, 2024

This morning, @CardinalDolan attended the first Mass to be celebrated in Notre Dame Cathedral since the 2019 fire.

Standing in front of the statue of Our Lady of Paris, inside the Cathedral named for her, @CardinalDolan says (cont.)@notredameparis pic.twitter.com/ElIqyxLg5i
— The Good Newsroom (@thegnewsroom) December 8, 2024

Zelenskyy With Trump in Paris

I had a good and productive trilateral meeting with President @realDonaldTrump and President @EmmanuelMacron at the Élysée Palace.

President Trump is, as always, resolute. I thank him. I also extend my gratitude to Emmanuel for organizing this important meeting.

We all want… pic.twitter.com/eKMtuhp2ZI
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) December 7, 2024

Volodymyr Zelenskyy looks like a fool. His goofy little outfit makes him look smaller than he already is. His attire is completely inappropriate in this setting and so many others. He's a joke.
It's time for this bit Zelenskyy has been milking to end.

President-Elect Donald Trump meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and French President Emmanuel Macron at Élysée Palace in Paris.

pic.twitter.com/Hm3Txwc1ZO
— America (@america) December 7, 2024

Jill Biden and Trump in Paris

MAGA goes wild over Jill Biden’s very friendly encounter with Trump at the Notre Dame reopening in Paris https://t.co/rnd1tWzIL9 pic.twitter.com/Fai6qy9SAP
— New York Post (@nypost) December 8, 2024

It's nice to see Jill Biden and President Trump being so friendly. Weird, but nice.

Trump in Command

Donald Trump with world leaders and heads of state at Notre Dame Cathedral today

Notice how every single person’s eyes seem to be fixated on Trump, they can’t look away

The boss is back pic.twitter.com/wjo6KkDvZJ
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) December 8, 2024

Hard to tell if this was the re-opening of Notre Dame or the re-opening of Trump as global leader. pic.twitter.com/UWShp9mPGM
— Raymond Arroyo (@RaymondArroyo) December 7, 2024

Remember when world leaders and dignitaries treated Biden like this?
Nope.

Trump and Macron Handshake

He's back. America is back.

Put your loving hand out.pic.twitter.com/OFQ1zDrPX5
— Truth Justice ™ (@SpartaJustice) December 8, 2024

President Trump manhandles French President Emmanuel Macron with one of the most dominating handshakes I’ve ever seen

We are so back

pic.twitter.com/G2DPvO7wLs
— Drew Hernandez (@DrewHLive) December 7, 2024

OH MY GOSH! President Trump almost yanked Emmanuel Macron's hand off for the third time today 😂

Everything he does is calculated. pic.twitter.com/x2lpMWFlBr
— George (@BehizyTweets) December 7, 2024

7 years later and the handshake battle continues between Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron. pic.twitter.com/hV0uKKan8b
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) December 7, 2024

President Trump exhibits American strength.
The Democrat/Uniparty/Biden/Harris era is over.

Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Trump Will Attend Reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral

President Trump just announced he is attending the re-opening of Notre Dame ✝️ pic.twitter.com/lWa1ElnBq1
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) December 3, 2024

Trump to travel to Paris for re-opening of Notre Dame Cathedral: ‘It will be a very special day’ https://t.co/4Rc0t4TYWg pic.twitter.com/Yg2g21jU1K
— New York Post (@nypost) December 3, 2024

RETURN TO GLORY: Trump will be among 50 heads of state expected to attend Notre Dame's reopening this weekend, an invite-only affair celebrating the restoration of one of Europe's most famous cathedrals. Nearly $1 billion was raised for the restoration. https://t.co/Y4mXCwILmM pic.twitter.com/p0pd3hckPa
— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 3, 2024

President Trump is back as leader of the Free World. America is back.
Meanwhile, weak, demented Biden is wandering around aimlessly in Africa.
It's terrible that it was necessary for Americans to experience the nightmare of Democrat policies for four years before bringing real leadership back to the country.
I hope that lesson will not be forgotten.

Thursday, November 21, 2024

Notre-Dame Restored

Notre-Dame has been restored!
pic.twitter.com/g7RKQDHRlr
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 21, 2024

From the ashes.

Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Patricio del Real: Notre-Dame Fire 'Act of Liberation'

Patricio del Real is Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard.

It makes sense that a Harvard professor would refer to the Notre-Dame fire as an "act of liberation."

From Rolling Stone:

Over the course of the past few centuries, the cathedral has played a role in major historical events, from the coronation of kings to the crowning of Napoleon to the requiem mass of President Charles de Gaulle. And Notre Dame has served as a symbol of not just French historical identity, but Catholicism in general. “It has a double meaning,” says Jean-Robert Armogathe, a French Catholic priest and historian who served as the chaplain at Notre Dame from 1980 to 1985. “It has been the center of Catholic life and of France for 800 years.” As Armogathe points out, it is also quite literally the center of Paris: a gold star outside the cathedral marks Point Zero, the supposed center of the city.

But for some people in France, Notre Dame has also served as a deep-seated symbol of resentment, a monument to a deeply flawed institution and an idealized Christian European France that arguably never existed in the first place. “The building was so overburdened with meaning that its burning feels like an act of liberation,” says Patricio del Real, an architecture historian at Harvard University. If nothing else, the cathedral has been viewed by some as a stodgy reminder of “the old city — the embodiment of the Paris of stone and faith — just as the Eiffel Tower exemplifies the Paris of modernity, joie de vivre and change,” Michael Kimmelmann wrote for the New York Times.

Despite politicians on both sides of the French political spectrum discouraging people from trying to politicize the Notre Dame fire, it would be a mistake to view the building as little more than a Paris tourist attraction, says John Harwood, an architectural historian and associate professor at the University of Toronto. “It’s literally a political monument. All cathedrals are,” he says. For centuries, the cathedral was the seat of the bishop of the Catholic Church at a time when there was virtually no distinction between church and state. “It was the center and seat of political power not just in Paris, but in France,” he says. “And that remained the case even after the French Revolution and through successive revolutions and political power and regimes.”

Understandably, this Rolling Stone article was criticized.

From FOX News:

Rolling Stone Magazine is facing criticism on Tuesday over a quote used on social media to highlight a piece on the rebuilding of the Notre Dame Cathedral after the devastating fire.

The article, titled, “How Should France Rebuild Notre Dame?” asks several experts and historians about the first steps in repairing the damage. Harvard University architecture historian Patricio del Real offered a new take on the meaning behind the fire.

“The building was so overburdened with meaning that its burning feels like an act of liberation,” Patricio del Real told Rolling Stone.

The magazine chose the quote to highlight the post on social media, which drew fierce backlash and was “ratio’d” on Twitter, meaning it had more replies than likes and retweets.

Rolling Stone deserved the "fierce backlash" it received.

It's shockingly insensitive and religiously intolerant to view the catastrophic fire as an "act of liberation."

Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Notre-Dame and Ilhan Omar: 'Art and Architecture'?

The Cathedral containing the Crown of Thorns is just “art and architecture” to @IlhanMN. This is the same flippant attitude towards the sacred that ISIS displayed when destroying Palmyra. https://t.co/2V6FYboIj2
— Raheem Kassam (@RaheemKassam) April 15, 2019

Someone needs to explain to Ilhan Omar that the Cathedral isn't just an art museum to Catholics.

Notre-Dame Fire Extinguished

The Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Paris is no longer burning.

After hours of battling the flames, Paris firefighters say the blaze at Notre Dame cathedral is fully extinguished https://t.co/OPa9qw43J4
— Sky News (@SkyNews) April 16, 2019

“Shock and sadness”, as well as prayers for those doing all they can to cope with this “dramatic situation”, are the emotions expressed by the Holy See in response to the terrible fire that devastated the Cathedral of #NotreDame in Paris. https://t.co/dm5KUUhXmG
— Vatican News (@VaticanNews) April 16, 2019

The cathedral survived for centuries, and the world wars that devastated Europe, yet an accident related to its renovation did this catastrophic damage.

In pictures: Fire engulfs Notre Dame https://t.co/pY9Iq9NJ4B pic.twitter.com/4rznIExCLg
— CNN (@CNN) April 16, 2019

A relic of the crown of thorns, believed to have been worn by Jesus Christ during his crucifixion, was rescued from the Notre-Dame fire. But the condition of many other treasures remained unclear. https://t.co/e6s2Yp6BG3
— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 16, 2019

Images from inside Notre Dame cathedral offer glimpse of damage after devastating fire. https://t.co/Ubr8ZRT3o6 pic.twitter.com/nWKXnstW56
— ABC News (@ABC) April 16, 2019

The stone construction of Notre Dame cathedral has been "saved," as have the "main works of art" from the building, the Paris Fire Brigade says https://t.co/3UbhwnGxXN pic.twitter.com/ppnSc5RcxD
— CNN International (@cnni) April 16, 2019

After every Good Friday, there is always an Easter.

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"I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president."

--HILLARY CLINTON

"It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is."

--BILL CLINTON

"And let me tell you something -- for the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction and just not feeling so alone in my frustration and disappointment."

--MICHELLE OBAMA

"If asking a billionaire to pay the same tax rate as a Jew, uh, as a janitor, makes me a warrior for the working class, I wear that with a badge of honor."

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"If you love me, you got to help me pass this bill."

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"[F]or most of my lifetime, the United States was such a dominant economic power, we were such a large market, our industry, our technology, our manufacturing was so significant that we always met the rest of the world economically on our terms. And now, because of the incredible rise of India and China and Brazil and other countries, the United States remains the largest economic and the largest market but there’s real competition out there. And that's potentially healthy. It makes -- Michelle was saying earlier I like tough questions because it keeps me on my toes. Well, this will keep America on its toes."

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"If Latinos sit out the election instead of saying, 'We're gonna PUNISH OUR ENEMIES and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us,' if they don't see that kind of upsurge in voting in this election, then I think it's gonna be harder and that's why I think it's so important that people focus on voting on November 2."

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"We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but THEY GOTTA SIT IN BACK."

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"We can absorb a terrorist attack. We'll do everything we can to prevent it, but even a 9/11, even the biggest attack ever... we absorbed it and we are stronger."

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"We're buying shrimp, guys."

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"We are the ones we've been waiting for."

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"We talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers so I know whose ass to kick."

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"We're not trying to push financial reform because we begrudge success that's fairly earned. I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money. But, you know, part of the American way is, you know, you can just keep on making it if you’re providing a good product or you're providing good service. We don't want people to stop fulfilling the core responsibilities of the financial system to help grow the economy."

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"If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."

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"It is a vital national security interest of the United States to reduce these conflicts because whether we like it or not, we remain a dominant military superpower, and when conflicts break out, one way or another we get pulled into them. And that ends up costing us significantly in terms of both blood and treasure."

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"But I -- I think that the most important thing for the public to understand is, we're not handling any of these cases any different than the Bush administration handled them all through 9/11."

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"One such translator was an American of Haitian descent, representative of the extraordinary work that our men and women in uniform do all around the world -- Navy CORPSE-MAN Christian [sic] Brossard. And lying on a gurney aboard the USNS Comfort, a woman asked Christopher: 'Where do you come from? What country? After my operation,' she said, 'I will pray for that country.' And in Creole, CORPSE-MAN Brossard responded, 'Etazini.' The United States of America."

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"I hear that Dr. Joe Medicine Crow was around, and so I want to give a shout-out to that Congressional Medal of Honor winner. It's good to see you."

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"We are God's partners in matters of life and death."

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"[T]he Cambridge police acted stupidly."

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"I am going to teach [my daughters] first about values and morals, but if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby."

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"The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings, and INEFFICIENCIES to our health care system."

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"Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go to even though I really wanted to visit, but my staff would not justify it."

--BARACK OBAMA

NOTEWORTHY QUOTATIONS

"In a word, freedom is ever new. It is a challenge held out to each generation, and it must constantly be won over for the cause of good.... [A] democracy without values can lose its very soul."

--POPE BENEDICT XVI

"When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society."

--POPE JOHN PAUL II

"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop."

--MOTHER TERESA

"To promote choice for its own sake is more akin to self-indulgence than self-determination. It is the philosophy of a pre-schooler in a candy shop."

--BRIAN POLLARD, M.D.

"The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people."

--MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

"The house we hope to build is not for my generation but for yours. It is your future that matters. And I hope that when you are my age, you will be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom. We lived lives that were a statement, not an apology."

--RONALD REAGAN

"Liberalism is the philosophy of the stupid."

--MARK LEVIN

"We are Warriors forever."

--BO ELLIS

"I know how much you're supposed to enjoy every sandwich, you know."

--WARREN ZEVON

FREEDOM EDEN

Sunday, December 8, 2024

Notre-Dame Cathedral Reopens

Zelenskyy With Trump in Paris

Jill Biden and Trump in Paris

Trump in Command

Trump and Macron Handshake

Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Trump Will Attend Reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral

Thursday, November 21, 2024

Notre-Dame Restored

Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Patricio del Real: Notre-Dame Fire 'Act of Liberation'

Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Notre-Dame and Ilhan Omar: 'Art and Architecture'?

Notre-Dame Fire Extinguished

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