Sunny slide downwards

For an institution that's been on the right side of history so often in the past, it's more than a little disconcerting to see my beloved Catholic Church fold to the demands of the terrorists. What better way to squander two millenia of Moral Authority than to embrace dhimmitude and desecrate your holiest of shrines with those dreaded insignia of Islezbofascism, photovoltaic cells:

Some Holy See buildings will start using solar energy, reflecting Pope Benedict XVI's concern about conserving the Earth's resources, a Vatican engineer said Tuesday. The roof of the Paul VI auditorium will be redone next year, with its cement panels replaced with photovoltaic cells to convert sunlight into electricity, engineer Pier Carlo Cuscianna said. ...

The cells will produce enough electricity to illuminate, heat or cool the building, Cuscianna said. ...

"Since the auditorium isn't used every day, the (excess) energy will feed into the network providing (the Vatican) with power, so other Vatican offices can use the energy," he said

The Pope should install a bunch of Muslim footbaths for his new overlords while he's got the construction crews there, because the distinction between environmentalism and militant Islam is next to nil at this point.

Though public transportation and increased fuel efficiency standards are certainly contenders for the this dubious honor, renewable energy remains the foulest bauble of The Left's eco-vanity. Regardless of the audacious claims those decapitation-crazy proponents of wind, water, solar and geothermal energy make in their propaganda videos, the reality of the situation is that the only way to decrease dependence on foreign oil is to turn foreign oil into American oil. Our Visionary in Chief, President Bush, realized this early on, and has nearly achieved this noble goal with his Iraq conquest. However, the enemies of Freedom (Al Qaeda, MSM, Sean Penn, et al.) have so inflamed the Iraqi opposition that the admission of our 51st state remains but a tantalizing glint on the horizon; this certainly doesn't help matters.

Pope Benedict's submission to jihadism represents another dagger in the troop's back (as if this weren't enough), and should not be taken lightly: It sets the likely date of a pacified Iraq back by at least six months, if not more so. Their refusal to take the threat that The Left presents to Western Civilization seriously should not be forgotten, and goes a long way in bolstering the argument that the Bush Whitehouse is the new Holy See of Christian Values. Perhaps it's time to add the Vatican to the Axis of Evil and invade their asses. Praise Him!