It's sad to see the Toledo Catholic Diocese stepping up its efforts to defeat a bill that would rewrite Ohio's statutes of limitations for victims of child sexual abuse. In a letter to diocesan priests, Bishop Leonard Blair said that the bill "should be of serious concern to all of us," and urged them to contact their state representatives to voice opposition to the legislation. It seems that Blair and the state's other Catholic bishops strongly oppose the amendment that would set a one-year "look back" period during which victims could file civil suits over abuses that occurred as long as 35 years ago.
Sounds like somebody has a skeleton or two in their closet. Anyone who still thinks that the Catholic church is the moral institution it makes itself out to be is fooling themselves.
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5.09.2005
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Burka Blue
Leave it to GREATSCAT! to find interesting music. The Burka Band is a group of Afghani women taking part in a music workshop in the state music school ‘Institute of Learning Music’ in Kabul in October 2002. This is great!
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Dubya sez...
"They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program."
-George W. Bush, 2 Nov 2000, speaking in St. Charles, Missouri
Borrowed from RANTZILLA
UNBELIEVABLE!
Church members were thrown out of a NC church for not supporting Dubya. Yeah real Christian-like.
Former Church Member: "He told us if we didn't support George Bush that we need to resign our position and get out of the church."
Go watch the video
Former Church Member: "He told us if we didn't support George Bush that we need to resign our position and get out of the church."
Go watch the video
Blair wins 3rd term
When Dubya pranced his way to a second term, the Brits called us idiots. Now that his lap dog, Tony BLIAR, has been re-elected to a third term it's our turn to return the favor. British voters are idiots! How could they re-elect BLIAR knowing what they know now? Especially since the damning memo came to light just before the election. At least the Labour Party majority will be slashed from 167 to 70. Shades of Clinton's 2nd term?
Blair secures his third term - but how long will he last at No 10?
The Vent from the AJC
Friday's best...
North Korea test-fired a missile in Bush's second term; do we blame Carter or Clinton for this?
Traditional and Roth IRAs are private retirement accounts and every working American has access to them. Private accounts for Social Security would be redundant.
There is nothing more dangerous in this world than a bottle of wine and an eBay account.
Ethical politicians should be placed on the endangered species list.
I can't stand anymore news about the runaway bride. Can't we just go back to picking on Alabama?
We have American soldiers dying at record numbers in Iraq..and all the media cares about is a stupid bride-to-be and her jilted fiance'!!
North Korea test-fired a missile in Bush's second term; do we blame Carter or Clinton for this?
Traditional and Roth IRAs are private retirement accounts and every working American has access to them. Private accounts for Social Security would be redundant.
There is nothing more dangerous in this world than a bottle of wine and an eBay account.
Ethical politicians should be placed on the endangered species list.
I can't stand anymore news about the runaway bride. Can't we just go back to picking on Alabama?
We have American soldiers dying at record numbers in Iraq..and all the media cares about is a stupid bride-to-be and her jilted fiance'!!
Please send a letter...
..it just takes a click.
The last 24 hours has exposed further confirming proof of the way that intelligence was deliberately twisted to mislead our country into a disastrous and unnecessary invasion of a country that posed no real threat to us. According to a no longer top secret memo from nearly three years ago, "facts and intelligence were being fixed around policy" because there was "no patience with the UN route", in other words DIPLOMACY
Which brings us directly back to the John Bolton problem. Even leaving aside his pathological pattern of abusive, loose cannon behavior unbecoming a diplomat, it is precisely because this intimidation was employed so often to DISTORT our intelligence that he must be finally rejected. Indeed, his fingerprints are even on the phony Niger yellow cake casus belli. If there was ever a poster boy for malevolently cooked intelligence, he's the guy.
According to Scott Ritter (who hasn't missed a call yet), Bolton's mission at the UN would be to abort any possibility of diplomacy with Iran, so as to force a military confrontation. Unless we SPEAK UP NOW to reiterate our strong opposition to this nomination, it would set in motion events leading to the use of nuclear weapons, both by us and ultimately and inevitably then against us.
Send a letter to your Congressmen
The last 24 hours has exposed further confirming proof of the way that intelligence was deliberately twisted to mislead our country into a disastrous and unnecessary invasion of a country that posed no real threat to us. According to a no longer top secret memo from nearly three years ago, "facts and intelligence were being fixed around policy" because there was "no patience with the UN route", in other words DIPLOMACY
Which brings us directly back to the John Bolton problem. Even leaving aside his pathological pattern of abusive, loose cannon behavior unbecoming a diplomat, it is precisely because this intimidation was employed so often to DISTORT our intelligence that he must be finally rejected. Indeed, his fingerprints are even on the phony Niger yellow cake casus belli. If there was ever a poster boy for malevolently cooked intelligence, he's the guy.
According to Scott Ritter (who hasn't missed a call yet), Bolton's mission at the UN would be to abort any possibility of diplomacy with Iran, so as to force a military confrontation. Unless we SPEAK UP NOW to reiterate our strong opposition to this nomination, it would set in motion events leading to the use of nuclear weapons, both by us and ultimately and inevitably then against us.
Send a letter to your Congressmen
5.05.2005
Letters to the Editor - The Orlando Sentinel
Feel the pain
Mind you, normally I'm not a mean-spirited person. However, lately one of my fondest wishes is for George W. Bush to wind up a farthingless octogenarian totally dependent on Social Security.
Now that would be real and poetic justice!
Priscilla Black
Orlando
Creating instability
President Bush, in his recent news conference, proposed radical change to the Social Security system. Such changes would create unknowns and instability, exactly the opposite of what Social Security is about.
The president's "fixes" -- privatization of the public Social Security Fund and indexing benefits based on income -- are fiscally irresponsible. The second "fix" is just a solution to a problem created by the first.
Our president wants to sink us deeper into debt, and pay for it with reduced benefits for the middle class. The truth is that Social Security is currently strong, with record surpluses that are increasing yearly, and that projections of insolvency are almost four decades into the future and therefore very uncertain. George W. Bush, by using scary talk about "collapse" and "bankruptcy," has chosen to confuse and divide us.
Alan Levi
Orlando
Root of problem
Government spending of Social Security surpluses was begun by Lyndon Johnson in order to decrease the deficits incurred by the Vietnam War. Subsequent presidents continued this inappropriate sequestration. The fact remains that this program was intended to be funded on a pay-as-you-go basis. The ordinary annual surpluses used to range from $80 billion to $100 billion. In 2003, the surplus amounted to $165.5 billion. The estimate for 2004 is $150 billion. Some crisis!
If the Bush plan should become law, then billions of dollars shall fall into the hands of the brokerage houses. Cui Bono?
No one mentions the British example of private, oops, personal accounts that have been a disaster. Paeans to private vs. government management ignore the fact that the administrative cost of Social Security is slightly more than 1 percent, whereas private insurance firms average about 20 percent. For the working stiff, it is a fool's paradise to believe that he may gain, not lose, in view of the business cycle and of brokerage fees.
True reform must first prohibit government from diversion of these monies to other purposes. Second, the ceiling of $90,000 must be abolished so that millions earned (?) must also be taxed. Thus the present payroll taxes may be reduced to possibly 2 percent or 3 percent, but then the brokerage houses would lose the prospect of great profits.
Walter Tegnazian
Orlando
Mind you, normally I'm not a mean-spirited person. However, lately one of my fondest wishes is for George W. Bush to wind up a farthingless octogenarian totally dependent on Social Security.
Now that would be real and poetic justice!
Priscilla Black
Orlando
Creating instability
President Bush, in his recent news conference, proposed radical change to the Social Security system. Such changes would create unknowns and instability, exactly the opposite of what Social Security is about.
The president's "fixes" -- privatization of the public Social Security Fund and indexing benefits based on income -- are fiscally irresponsible. The second "fix" is just a solution to a problem created by the first.
Our president wants to sink us deeper into debt, and pay for it with reduced benefits for the middle class. The truth is that Social Security is currently strong, with record surpluses that are increasing yearly, and that projections of insolvency are almost four decades into the future and therefore very uncertain. George W. Bush, by using scary talk about "collapse" and "bankruptcy," has chosen to confuse and divide us.
Alan Levi
Orlando
Root of problem
Government spending of Social Security surpluses was begun by Lyndon Johnson in order to decrease the deficits incurred by the Vietnam War. Subsequent presidents continued this inappropriate sequestration. The fact remains that this program was intended to be funded on a pay-as-you-go basis. The ordinary annual surpluses used to range from $80 billion to $100 billion. In 2003, the surplus amounted to $165.5 billion. The estimate for 2004 is $150 billion. Some crisis!
If the Bush plan should become law, then billions of dollars shall fall into the hands of the brokerage houses. Cui Bono?
No one mentions the British example of private, oops, personal accounts that have been a disaster. Paeans to private vs. government management ignore the fact that the administrative cost of Social Security is slightly more than 1 percent, whereas private insurance firms average about 20 percent. For the working stiff, it is a fool's paradise to believe that he may gain, not lose, in view of the business cycle and of brokerage fees.
True reform must first prohibit government from diversion of these monies to other purposes. Second, the ceiling of $90,000 must be abolished so that millions earned (?) must also be taxed. Thus the present payroll taxes may be reduced to possibly 2 percent or 3 percent, but then the brokerage houses would lose the prospect of great profits.
Walter Tegnazian
Orlando
Quote of the day
“I feel quite strongly that as long as we have our military in the Middle East fighting so that we can continue to purchase oil from that region, we have an obligation to find alternatives to foreign oil. It is difficult to justify the death of even one soldier when we are not doing everything in our power to explore options for oil within our country.”
-Rep. Dan Lungren (R-CA) all but admitting that the Iraq war is about oil
What the hell!? I'll bet he loses his clubhouse priveleges and decoder ring for this one.
Story here
-Rep. Dan Lungren (R-CA) all but admitting that the Iraq war is about oil
What the hell!? I'll bet he loses his clubhouse priveleges and decoder ring for this one.
Story here
Bush, Blair and the Town Hall Meetings
If you missed The Daily Show last night you have to see this!
Via Crooks and Liars
Via Crooks and Liars
CURSE YOU, BLOGGERS!
This is funny. Thanks to Benjie for sharing with the class.
...they ‘still don’t know how to handle the bloggers’
...they ‘still don’t know how to handle the bloggers’
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