Tuesday, January 18, 2005

In Car News: The President gets a new Cadillac and the Pope tries to score some Formula 1 tickets.

Thecarconnection.com reports today that the Presidential innauguration will feature the debut of a new Cadillac presidential limo.

More disturbingly to a Catholic like me, it reports that the Pope granted an audience to the Ferrari Formula One team. What's so bad about that? Here's what the Pope said:

"My compliments to you for the victory in the recent world championship,'' the AP reports. "The Church considers sporting activity, practiced in full respect of the rules, a valid educational instrument for the younger generations.''

Ferrari's primary sponsor is Marlboro cigarettes. It bugs me that the Pope publicly proclaims that a team that promotes the single largest cause of avoidable deaths is "a valid educational instrument for the younger generations." Maybe the Pope should get out more and perform last rights on a guy who's smoking through his trach. We've had to do home wills for folks like this, and let me tell you, it ain't pretty.

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