Great call from the Pope

For everything that he does to tick me off, he also comes up with great things - from Yahoo:

Pope tells kids to get off their backsides
Pope Francis urged "drowsy and dull kids" to swap their sofas and video games for walking boots on Saturday at an international Catholic youth festival in Poland.

He warned the popular piece of sitting-room furniture gave the illusion of safety from pain, fear or worries, allowing the sitter to kick back and lose themselves for hours in the latest television show or their smartphones.

"For many people it is easier and better to have drowsy and dull kids who confuse happiness with a sofa," he told an estimated one million people gathered at a vigil in a vast plain near Krakow.

"Dear young people, we didn't come into the world to 'vegetate'... We came for another reason: to leave a mark," he said.

"The times we live in do not call for young 'couch potatoes' but for young people with shoes, or better, boots laced."

A big amen to that!!! Out here, people tend to be very active. In the city, not so much - people live lives that are too sedentary. Obesity is a major issue. Just walking a few miles every day or two would go a long way to fix this.

Pope Francis advocates globalism and feels that the islamic terrorists are just a little bit misunderstood and we need to reach out to them more. One these issues I think that he is dead wrong. He also believes in Global Warming - there, he is just being fed bad data from his advisers - Garbage In, Garbage Out. That has been an issue since Galileo