Judge refuses to drop charges against U.S. Catholic bishop
(Reuters) - A Catholic bishop in Kansas City must stand trial on charges that he failed to report a priest found with pornographic pictures of young girls on his Church computer to police, a judge said on Thursday.
Bishop Robert Finn, head of the Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph, faces one misdemeanor charge that he failed to tell authorities that Church officials had found disturbing pictures of unclothed little girls that appeared to have been taken by a popular local priest, Father Patrick Ratigan.
Missouri statutes requiring clergy, school teachers and others to report suspected child sexual abuse were "vague."also, Bishop Finn
had no duty to report the situation to authorities, because he was not the "designated reporter" within the diocese and could rely on someone else within the diocese to notify authorities.
Except for a few isolated, courageous voices among the Bishops, here & recently in Ireland, these clerical executives seem to have little or no sense of the evilness they have permitted & covered up. It reaches all the way to Pope Benedict XVI. Why is that so? Why are they not grief-stricken & shamed? Why are they not engaging in extreme expressions of atonement? These corrupt & cowardly Bishops should be crawling on bloody knees & hands to Shrines of the Blessed Virgin, resign their offices, & retire to austere & silent cloistered monasteries (after they do their prison time), never to show their faces again.
Lawsuits by victims of perverted priests have emptied the coffers of Archdioceses & in some places bankrupted them. Hundreds of schools & parish churches are closed. Some deserve to be shut down, but in no instances does the Church admit it is due to pedophile priests. But laity connects the dots, Only ultra-conservative Catholics, like those represented by Rick Santorum, defend the Bishops. They want to return the Church to the era before Pope John XXIII & Vatican reforms. For them, if Father O'Malley in Going My Way was raping altar boys, just quietly transfer the Singing Priest from St. Dominic's to St. Mary's, & if Ingrid Bergman notices, she's just a nun, she can be sent to Borneo.
(Raw Story) Welcome to Ohio State's black cultural center.
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Ha ha ha! Who's going to pay for Callista's pearl necklaces now?
Do Cry For Me, Tiffany - Staff-banging serial adulterer Newticles' think tank declared chapter 7 bankruptcy today, which is probably an eleventy-seven level chess move that only big thinkers like Gingrich could possible understand. Still, should be interesting to see if Callista sports a new pearl necklace (with drop earrings to match) as a consolation prize for not being First Mistress. (First Read)
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Give her the fucking money, you fascist pigs! A waitress in Moorehead, Minnesota turned a $12,000 "tip" over to the police after a customer left it, even though she tried to return it and was told by the customer "No, I'm good." She was told if it wasn't claimed in 60 days, it was hers. Well...you know what they say...no good deed goes unpunished. When she tried to claim it, she was given the run-around and eventually told that it was "suspected of being drug money" and not returned to her, but she might be eligible for a $1000 reward after they complete their investigation. She's suing to get it back.
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Like your grandmother always told you: if it sounds too good to be true, it is. "Greg Mortenson, the former head of a non-profit organisation in the US which has built hundreds of schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan, will repay more than $1m to the charity, according to a settlement agreement. Mortenson, the author of Three Cups of Tea, founded the Central Asia Institute (CAI) in 1996. He was accused last year of embezzling money from the charity, and of fabricating passages in the book, which recounts his inspiration for founding the charity."
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We need a consumer strike now.
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Half a billion trees are dead as a result of the Texas drought that left the state desiccated last year. So far, Texas has lost $7.62 billion in crop and livestock, but that number is expected to grow.
I sure hope they don't ask for any help from the government. That would be like socialism.
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Finance Expert: Oil Price Increase Is Being Driven By 'Gamblers Wearing Wall Street Suits'
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So, the Citadel, the military college in South Carolina? Has a class on "Conservative Intellectual Tradition in America"? (We have not gotten to the joke yet, you guys.) And the professor brings in such luminous worthies/worthy luminaries as … Donald Rumsfeld and Ed Meese? (We still haven't gotten to the funny part!) Well, this week's was Phyllis Schlafly, the happy warrior chiefly known for defeating the Equal Rights Amendment and hating gays except her gay son, and she had plenty of good sensible (and extremely timely) warnings for our future military leaders, like: "Feminists are having a hard time being elected because they essentially are unlikable," and "Find out if your girlfriend is a feminist before you get too far into it," she said. "Some of them are pretty. They don't all look like Bella Abzug." Haw haw haw, said the cadets, or they would have if they had any idea who Abzug was, since she died in 1998 when they four years old. (She was awesome, cadets! But she was ugly so you probably wouldn't want to fuck her, so she should have probably shut her hole.) READ MORE »
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Democratic leaders on Wednesday dismissed Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch's warning to supporters that Democrats might attack the Mormon faith of Mitt Romney during the presidential campaign.
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Robert Parry: Bin Laden's Personal Debt to Bush
Recent disclosures about Osama bin Laden's life after he slipped through George W. Bush's fingers in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks put into a more personal light why the terrorist leader so appreciated Bush's decision to divert U.S. military attention to Iraq: Bin Laden spent his last nine years living with his three wives and fathering four more children.
Bin Laden especially got to enjoy the pleasures of his youngest wife who was in her 20s — and who bore him the four children — as the fugitive family skipped across Pakistan from safe house to safe house before settling down at a compound in Abbottabad. Bin Laden was finally tracked down there and killed in May 2011 on President Barack Obama's orders.
What do you get the super-rich fratboy who already has everything? You give him this:
This allowed Der Monkey Fuhrer to become Emperor of America, where his every whim became law.
The Democrats wet themselves in fear, leaving the Bush jackals to run roughshod over
the entire planet and nobody did a goodamn thing to stop them.
The result was 6,000 dead soldiers, $15 trillion in debt and trillions more stolen from American familes.
America became Torture Nation, just so Bush would have something visual to masturbate to.
But hey, as long as Emperor Bush was made happy, that's all that counts. 
"Wait, you're saying WE should have done something?"
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