At CNN today:

(CNN) – A total of 250 clerics in the Boston Archdiocese have been accused of child abuse in recent decades, according to information made public Thursday by Cardinal Sean O’Malley in an attempt to help resolve an issue tearing at the core of Catholicism.

From the LA Times:

[Rep (D-Los Angeles) Maxine] Waters vowed to push Congress to focus on creating more jobs. “I’m not afraid of anybody,” said Waters. “This is a tough game. You can’t be intimidated. You can’t be frightened. And as far as I’m concerned, the ‘tea party’ can go straight to hell.”

Well, the Republicans had their debate the other night, if you want to call it that.  Given some of the questions I heard (I popped in and out, admittedly mostly out but did I get a random sampling) there wasn’t much of an opportunity to impress.  Or at least I didn’t hear any answers that were particularly impressive.

Background (from Wikipedia):

[Update at bottom]

Interesting to see the uproar regarding the outcome (not guilty except for lying to the police).

I have to wonder how many people with an solid opinion actually watched the trial, versus hearing the “experts” on that most noble and informative of sources, the “Mainstream Media.”  And of those who did watch, I wonder how many did so with a critical eye. 

Well, I’ve said before that if we were ever able to take a large broom and sweep the incumbents en masse out of Washington I’d leave Bill Posey there.  It is a rare day that I disagree with his votes, and I review them regularly.

From here:

A California congressman has introduced a resolution calling for airlines to waive baggage fees for all U.S. troops deployed for service — and those commercial airlines that refuse to do so could have their contracts reevaluated.

So, there’s the road, a causeway according to The Daily Mail, that is subject to tidal flow.

Well, that’s rather like driving on the beach, isn’t it?  I mean, you don’t drive your car way down to water’s edge and leave it there, do you?  Can you say, “Tide’s coming in!”?

Think maybe they’ve been hanging together…

Emergency situation to them means go loot the place.
 

Three firefighters are fired and the Baxter Springs fire chief is placed on administrative leave while an investigation is underway into the looting of Joplin businesses on the night of the May 22nd tornado.

Recently, outgoing Secretary of Defense Robert Gates laid into many NATO members while praising a few others.  Here is part of the best article I’ve read on the subject, and I have read many.  And if you don’t think our membership in the NATO alliance is worthy of note, you are trillions of dollars and thousands of lives off the mark.  Our NATO membership is tremendously important, not necessarily in either a good or bad way, depending on your viewpoint, but important and of major impact nevertheless.

So, Delta is in PR hot water for charging soldiers returning from Afghanistan for their 4th bag of luggage, something they were not prepared to pay because first, they understandably didn’t have that much cash ($200), and second, who needs a credit card in a war zone?

Hadn’t seen him since a rather quick departure.  One day he was there in that house and later in the week he was gone and there was a For Sale sign in the front yard.  For sale by a bank, not a realtor.

In the last 2 days I’ve received messages from companies stating such.

 On March 30th, we were informed by Epsilon, a company we use to send emails to our customers, that files containing the email addresses of some ___________ customers were accessed without authorization.

I’ve been in law enforcement for the past 18 years.  I have attended a variety of training over those years.

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So it was then.. Who was it going to bomb there?

Oh yeah.  It was the U.S.

And who refused overflight permission?

Uh, thinking hard now…. yep, it was France, wasn’t it?

Hmmmm.  Just saw news reports that somebody is shooting down Libyan military aircraft.

Can corrupt government legitimately decide who it allows to keep and bear arms?

Go there to read his article.

My response is, “Of course not.”

But there is a deeper question.  Why should any government tell me what I can use to defend my life? 

Well, duh.  And it’s going to get a lot worse as provisions begin to roll in.  We haven’t seen the real problems yet.

Full article here.

Florida employers’ coverage costs may rise 6.1% — so workers will pay more

I wish I could think of this as unusual or unbelievable, but I can’t.

NORTH BROOKFIELD, Mass., Nov. 18 (UPI) — A Massachusetts school district superintendent said a memo banning sixth graders from carrying pencils was written without district approval.

As Rep John Mica encourages airports to drop TSA screening in favor of contract screening (which would still have to follow TSA-directed procedures), likely to be followed by the hiring of already trained currently in-service employees, I begin to wonder two things.

I’m weary of people who have little to nothing to do with such a system telling me what US Government-run health care is all about.  Some are familiar with Medicare, some are past active duty military, and some look totally from the wayside, but all have opinions.  They disturb me as much as those who bitch and complain, and as much as those who lovingly support, a health care bill they haven’t read.

Ralph, I tried, man.  I really tried.

I dropped Ruth off at the airport a lot earlier than usual because we knew they had the porno scanners in operation now and the lines were supposed to be longer than ever before.  From there I turned on the seat heater, lowered the air conditioning temperature, and headed directly to Miami, intending to be staying at a hotel 9 miles away from the funeral home, where I intended to be for the viewing/visitation that ended at 2000.

Peter has captured the ultimate in non-political correctness, this time involving rum and alligators.  Any explanation would be totally inadequate — you must see it to beieve it.  Be sure to watch all three video clips here. 

More from the sleezebag.

I’m glad I’m not still on active duty.  I’d vomit if I had to salute the S.O.B.

It would seem the Terminal Stupidity Agency is staffed by lemmings, or at the very minimum, management that demands their employees with brains not use them and act instead as lemmings.  See here.

And more on the privacy-killing, you’re guilty-because-you-want-to-travel, full body scanners, here. Note Update #2 at the bottom of the article — there’s more.

I saw the game last night.  I saw the original plays and the replays.

You apparently weren’t actually watching the game, Jerry.

I have a better plan for the Cowboys’ improvement.

I’ve read their book. They can have it. It is a tome of violence and repression at virtually every level. It reads less as a guide for life in a civilized society and more like a manual of war and domination.

And I’ve tried to draw the line between the radicals and the “others,” whoever/whatever that means.

Received in email, I’m not sure I agree with his opinion about the targeting of hate crimes legislation, though I strongly disagree with the legislation. Making any group special when it comes to protection and/or prosecution is just flat out not justice. The rest of the clip just can’t be denied, however.

AD has a post well worth reading (not that most his aren’t!) regarding what one might consider an overabundance of prescription medications.  It reminds me of a time when my mother, now deceased, had 17 different medications on her daily intake list.  It was as if no doctor ever considered reviewing the list and seeing if perhaps there might be some redundancy, or, even more important in my opinion, if there might be conflicts (surely there must have been?!) among them.

I used to be able to strip and prep coax of several types and sizes, install the connector, and solder the signal center lead, in about 5 minutes, and part of that was warm-up time for the soldering iron.  Nothing special required, just a sharp blade.