Friday, November 18, 2011
Joe the Pope - Unhate Yourself?
I don't know if the above advertisement is offensive? I showed it to someone point blank without explanation and she showed no negative response. Said something like "that is the custom over there" in Muslim countries and did not understand when I gave the full skinny on what the above was all about. That it was not Joe the Pope in the picture etc.
It is all about the Brand these days. The Vatican is concerned about the Brand and it is obvious that Benetton did not give a cut $ to the Brand for the supposed use of the supposed sacred image. Whatever.
The theme of these ads is "Unhate" meaning two enemies embrace and love.
I feel all too certain that a self-hating gay like Joseph Ratzinger or all the other self hating gay Cardinals and Bishops of the RCC do not, cannot understand the simple or underlying meaning of the message.
It is all about the BRAND.
Brand is the modern code word for profit/greed = irrelevant to any or all things human.
Whatever.
Try to find a little humor in life today. There is no little out there in the real world these days I think.
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Oakland Cathedral – Church of the Holy Vagina?
Holy Vagina!
I say that because when I look at it – that is what I see – a Pussy in modern sculptural form.
What? Well somebody has to say it! That cathedral looks like a bloody vagina!
Just recently saw this very well hidden from the media “architectural gem” for the very first time. I can guess why they keep this "gem" so well hidden. Besides its obvious anatomical likeness, it is one ugly pile of metal and glass architecture. An eyesore!
That is what is wrong with this modern age. Everybody, brain dead on TV and Video Games, is afraid to tell the secular or religious emperor, front office tin god, that he or she has no bloody clothes on!
For a religion that is so anti-vagina like the RCC why do they sculpt what they crave most but cannot have. Are there really any so-called heterosexual clerics in that religion to appreciate this kind of hidden joke played on them by the architects??? You know, like they don’t know what one looks like.
I know of one American Archbishop that goes screaming, cassock over his head, running out of the room at the mere thought of a naked female tit – something he did on a recent trip to Spain and it never made the American newspapers – but let’s not go there…
Is that piece of modernism architecture shit really a church???
What kind of spiritual mojo can you get going in this dirigible hanger – or what they called them my youth, a natural gas storage tank, that used to dot cities up until the 60s.
I have seen nicer Olympic ice skating rinks in my day but $200 million is quite a rip-off of whatever fool and or fools who signed the checks.
The two fold purpose of spending $200 million dollars was to have a fancy burial vault in the basement for 12 archbishops. That and the building is, get this, supposedly earthquake proof.
Picture this. Men of faith shaking their fists at God and more or less saying – WE DARE YOU to tear down this man-made Tower of Babel! (humble)
We all know where that architectural fable goes, which is tumble down, down, down.
Whatever. Have a nice day.
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Thursday, November 17, 2011
Parks Should be for People – Liberty, Zuccotti, Whatever
The leaves are turning colors. I see the leaves are still on the trees in Zuccotti Park on TV. It is a week before Thanksgiving. It is time to strip the remaining leaves off those trees and wrap the bare towers of stick in crystal clear tree lights.
It is something the tourist comes to expect in New York for Christmas – that Kodak moment at night – or when you pull out your cell phone and snap a digital image Tourists equate with Hollywood glamour, Disney Land beauty or whatever takes your visual fancy.
The Occupy Wall Street status at this park seems at present to be on temporary hiatus. The movement is only just starting. Losing this park as a symbolic base perhaps reflects time and energy needed to reorganize, re-strategize, and rethink the moment traveling into future reality. The future is born from a single seed.
Liberty Plaza Park as I originally knew it has been renamed to Zuccotti Park to pay fitting tribute to the Corporation that owns its. He actually does not own it; his company does and doesn’t own it. It is sort of jointly owned with the city.
Zuccotti Park is sort a hybrid mutant creation – the result of blind corporate GREED from the 1920s and hate, ignorance of the environment, fighting a city fit for humans habitation concept.
It all started with 120 Broadway, the Equitable Life Building, built to its maximum ground and air space in the high flying anything goes roaring twenties. If you know anything about that building monstrosity, you cannot walk two people abreast down its side streets of Cedar and Pine.
I find it ironic that the streets in downtown Manhattan with the tree names seemed to be the most forgotten and ugly lanes.
They changed the zoning laws after that or probably more accurately they started to have zoning laws in the permanent eternal, sunshine-less, shade on the ground around 120 Broadway.
So when they built One Liberty Plaza at 165 Broadway in 1973 and they wanted to top it up at 743 ft. (226 m) they had a problem. The zoning for a building that tall and so close to the Greedy Tower at 120 Broadway, they had to offset some ground space as a public space in order to let the sunlight in at ground levels for a few hours each day next to the corporate skyscraper.
And the added bonus with sunlight, you might even have some trees in that public space. Do people need sunlight? One Liberty Plaza tower is like one of the ugliest pieces of architectural shit on the downtown landscape with its Omnipresent, Monolithic, and Fascistic presence sucking all oxygen out of the room modern look.
Ta-Dah! Liberty Plaza Park is born around 135 Broadway bordered by Liberty Street and Cedar Street.
This is the first park I knew when I first came to New York in the late seventies. It wasn’t even finished. There was one holdout building, Chock Full of Nuts coffee shop, that held out until its lease was up. Can’t get away with that anymore. With corporations having the right of eminent domain, Liberty Plaza Park would have been built up at one time instead of the piecemeal way it evolved.
That park had some I believe twenty four trees in it, some metal, painted black benches and Seward Johnson’s sculpture of the Business Dude in his corporate monkey suit reviewing paperwork in his Attaché Case. Business Dude’s case is open and the 1980’s style Texas Instrument calculator in it is the size of a cigar box. So much for old technology.
After 911 they cut down the trees in Liberty Plaza Park, all 24 of them, to make way for emergency parking at the World Trade Center site diagonally across the street at Liberty and Church Streets.
Somewhere along the timeline, they restored Liberty Plaza Park, they I think meaning the taxpayers, and renamed it in favor of a man who owns One Liberty Plaza. That kinda reminds me of all these stadiums where taxpayers pay 99% of the cost of the stadiums with municipal bonds and some corporation kicks in 1% and gets its name, free advertising, put onto the structure. I think the same situation applies at Zuccotti.
Well anyway. We should be grateful that that put back the trees and call it a park though I think they call it urban sculptural landscaping or such these days. Needs to look like a Hollywood set. Does not have to be comfortable and it is called a park.
It is also a good thing that they don’t charge us to look at the trees in a city where everything is fees, tolls and fines for the rabble walking or driving around the streets.
Parks should be for people.
Peace. Pax. Joy. Love. Tree.
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Dan White – Bishop Finn – Incest? – Separation of Church and State?
Bishop Finn of Kansas City has presumably entered into a plea bargain in Clay County Missouri, the county where Father Ratigan lives, works and plays.
Bishop Finn will meet once a month with Prosecuting Attorney Daniel White to discuss any and all things related to Child Abuse and Child Endangerment for a period of five years.
Sounds a bit like Probation and meeting with your probation officer. Whatever.
One question. If Bishop Finn resigns, as all decent Catholics in Kansas City / St. Joseph Missouri want him to, in order to protect their children, does he still have to report to Dan White? Or does Bishop Finn have to stay in a religious appointment because of the say so of the secular civil authority?
Come again?
I thought there was a separation of Church and State in this Country. An established accepted taboo not unlike the taboo against incest.
This prosecutor has in effect locked job security into the legal equation for Bishop Finn for five more years, long suffering years for the good people in his diocese? Tell me I am wrong.
Or, that if Finn resigns tomorrow, Clay County will be satisfied that a dangerous person has left a job in which he has done harm and can continue to do harm to the community – and Probation ends for Bishop Finn? Finn can then leave town?
Where is this written contract between White and Finn for constitutional lawyers to analyze and comment on?
What is Dan White getting out of this sudden incestuous relationship in bed with Bobbie Finn or the RCC? Dan White is signing off on Vatican orders? USCCB? Who does he work for really? Who or what is he protecting? Bishop Finn’s church job?
There is certainly nothing in it for the citizens of Missouri who basically are stuck with an incompetent, uncaring cleric on a five year learning curve regarding a quest for humanity in his job description.
Business as usual in Clay County? Hide your children?
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
What the Hell Happened in Paterno-ville Pennsylvania?
Sandusky painted out of the picture - left - street mural - PSU
It is hard not have an opinion about what went wrong in Paterno-ville Pennsylvania and or the Penn State campus, State College, Pa..
It may have been coincidence but Joe signed over his rights to his house, value 560k, over to his wife alone, last summer for $1. No estate or tax advantages but an indication of things to come? How long has the sword, ready to fall, been dangling over his head? How long has the truth been hidden in Happy Valley?
He went so quietly like he knew it was coming, whatever it was. We have an idea of what it is. That he somehow had knowledge or complicity in the Sandusky thing whatever that thing is, besides the child obsession thing, was it blackmail, money laundering funneled through his scam, his charity? Or something else? Time may reveal the answers. Time may continue to hide the truth.
What did Joe Paterno sell his soul for? Did he have to sell it? His skills and some luck put him on top of the mountain called success for decades. One has to wonder what demons the man held within himself and his sacred persona. Only he can answer that. He seemed like a humble enough guy. The house he has lived in for over forty years is quite modest though IMO way overpriced.
Ran into an article by Reuters about how the Penn State Brand is now tarnished and pretty much every corporate sponsor except Nike has abandoned the U.S.S. Nittany Lion.
Everything in America is a commodity it would seem, a Brand.
They are removing Joe Paterno’s statue outside Beaver Stadium over Thanksgiving.
Joe’s Brand is no more. Time marches on.
Monday, November 14, 2011
Judges Dutchcot, Ciavarella, Conahan – Why are Kids in Pennsylvania so Vulnerable to Predators and Profit Pimps?
Famous PA Judges besides Judge Dutchcot – Conahan and Ciavarella – Kids in Pennsylvania seemed to be a cheap commodity to be exploited!
Child Abuse Judges Conahan & Ciavarella Indicted – RICO Act
I keep coming back to the fact that Pennsylvania seems likes a dangerous place for Kids to Live.
Is this Coach Sandusky thing a local thing, a Penn State thing, a Pennsylvania thing?
Two upstate Pennsylvania judges Ciavarella and Conahan threw hundreds of kids in jail for fun and profit in the recent past, into a for profit prison system on trumped charges like jay walking etc.
That story of corrupt judges only made the regional newspapers in Pennsylvania. The New York Times gave it two or three pieces but it was not treated nationally – it was a non-story - because it interfered with the god of money, the god of greed, the god of profit at any and all costs, including the lives and safety of innocent children.
I hope the rumors of a national pedophile ring, operating out of Penn State, and run nationally by the Mafia is just that – a Rumor? I do not feel that when everything in the U.S.A. seems to be for sale. Where everybody and everything is treated like a commodity for sale or a commodity to be exploited as in kids, our children.
Reputations of “great” men and women are more important than the safety of children – as so evidenced by the Cavalier manner in which “Judge” Leslie Dutchcot treats Sandusky as a victim and a still football super star rather than a criminal predator of children.
Revealed: Judge who freed Penn State 'paedophile' Sandusky worked for his charity
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2061259/Judge-freed-Jerry-Sandusky-worked-charity-The-Second-Mile.html#ixzz1dgJhYLkF
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2061259/Judge-freed-Jerry-Sandusky-worked-charity-The-Second-Mile.html#ixzz1dgJhYLkF
Where is our future if our children are treated so casually and are not visible, non-people to be exploited, in big business, corporations, tax free charities and the church?
Nancy Pelosi in Bed with John Boehner! Wild Sex? No. Stock Deals. Insider Trading. “Honest Graft”- Congress.
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“Nancy, Nancy, Sniffle, I only made 24% profit off my Stock Deals Today!” “John, John, don’t cry. We will clean up off these rube taxpayers tomorrow!” '60 Minutes' on 'honest graft' CBS’ 60 Minutes went after Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), and Financial Services Committee Chairman Spencer Bachus (R-Ala.) in a Sunday story covering allegations of insider trading and “soft corruption” by powerful members of Congress. 60 Minutes based its report, which also focused on former Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) and ex-Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), on research by Peter Schweizer, a fellow at the conservative Hoover Institution. Schweizer said he and his team of eight student researchers found “forms of honest graft” by lawmakers…. Boehner bought health-care stocks in 2009 shortly before the “public option” – universal health care – was dropped from the Democratic health care bill. Boehner said his financial adviser oversees all such decisions. - |
Judge Leslie Dutchcot gives Pedo State Coach Sandusky a sweetheart deal he can’t refuse – released on unsecured bail
Judge Leslie Dutchcot - does Charity work on the side
Justice Clarence Thomas of the Supreme Court does not excuse himself off of cases that present a conflict of interest for himself or his wife Virginia, why should Judge Leslie Dutchcot not do anything but a favor for her friend Jerry Sandusky? Why all the fuss?
Revealed: Judge who freed Penn State 'paedophile' Sandusky worked for his charity
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2061259/Judge-freed-Jerry-Sandusky-worked-charity-The-Second-Mile.html#ixzz1dgJhYLkF
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2061259/Judge-freed-Jerry-Sandusky-worked-charity-The-Second-Mile.html#ixzz1dgJhYLkF
The judge who requested Jerry Sandusky be freed on $100,000 unsecured bail, undertook volunteer work for the retired American football coach’s charity, according to reports.
District Judge Leslie Dutchcot, who previously volunteered for The Second Mile charity, ruled that the former Pennsylvania State University defensive coordinator be freed without posting any bail money unless he doesn't arrive for court.
Her decision overruled a bid by prosecutors, who requested a $500,000 bail be set for the 67-year-old and for him to be fitted with a leg monitor, after being charged with 21 felony counts for alleged sexual abuse.
Sunday, November 13, 2011
On the Road of Life with Saint Paul
St. Paul - Albrecht Durer
Some strange guy once waved to me in a nearly empty parking lot at the Mall in Arizona. Hey I do go to the mall sometimes.
I did not know the guy. He started to give me the spiel that he waved to me because he thought he knew me. I looked like someone he knew. Well not actually.
“Are you a Someway salesman?” I asked. “No.” he replied. This had happened to me before. People who sell some really junky soap powder for your clothes want to sell the same crappy soap suds to you and your friends and then start selling everything imaginable from their little catalogue. Sounds like a good deal. Cheap soap and its gets cheaper as you build a network of buyers for the products.
After a few more questions I hit pay dirt. I did not know the right questions. Then I switched the nouns or the verb tense and finally I got a “Yes, I am with Someway but I am not a salesman. I am a distributor.”
The guy was Hindu. I did not mention it sooner because it might have triggered a cultural reaction in you and ruined my intended line of thought and writing. He was dark skinned and before he spoke too much, I thought he might have been Mexican American. After all it was southern Arizona near the border. I didn’t know he was Hindu until he spoke with a slight accent.
Well I am a curious fellow and I like to chew the fat like anybody and in spite of the blazing hot summer sun, I continued in conversation. In a few more lines of conversation, I was asking him cultural questions about being Hindu. I was curious about their religious feasts. And the best I got out of him was yes he had a lot of relatives and yes they had holidays but mostly Hindu families like to get together to eat and eat and eat.
In many ways, this distributor was not much different than anybody else I knew here in America. I think of that random meeting in a parking lot and of course he gave me his card in case I changed my mind or if my brother in law wanted to sell suds.
I harken back to an earlier time when a man is standing in front of a synagogue and is engaging strangers in chit chat and conversation. This man is a stranger in town. Until he speaks, the natives have no clue who he is or where he is from. His dress is quite common for this town along a Roman road in Asia Minor, the country of Turkey in today’s geography. His accent is a little strange but you can’t quite put a finger on its origin. The man is Jewish in outward manners and wants to talk about some local gossip or a phrase that the local rabbi dropped in the synagogue on Sabbath.
Paul calls himself an apostle. He talks about having been a tentmaker. Do you have any tents that need repair? He could do it very cheaply. He had learned the trade when he spent two years in the far away exotic place of Arabia. He disclosed this without much explanation. The Arabia thing goes over most people’s heads. If they had ever heard of Arabia they knew that is was outside the realm of Roman control. Pirates abound in the waters off this exotic sounding country. If anything, a man or two of the world might think of that destination as the end of the line in terms of caravans snaking their way all around the Middle East and all the way to even more exotic sounding places like India or China.
“You say you studied Mosaic Law under the great Gamaliel?” Paul was forever careful. There were spies everywhere. With a simple question and a simple answer he might be labeled a trouble maker and thrown into a Roman jail but only after the locals had beaten him up. He was a Roman citizen. That was enough most of the time to get a Roman soldier or magistrate to give him the edge and the benefit of the doubt in any local dispute with natives that did not have the same rights of a Roman free man.
“I heard him talk a number of times. He is a brilliant man, a great scholar and a true man of the Almighty.” In truth he had not studied for long at the Temple. He had heard of Gamaliel and his defense of the new cult of Jesus before a local Temple administrative hearing.
“And now I tell you: Stay away from these men, and leave them alone. If their plan comes from human authority, it will fail. But if it is from God, you will not be able to stop them. You might even be fighting against God himself!” Acts 5:38-39
“I am busy right now Paul from Tarsus. I have errands. Come to my house later. We will talk. Join me and my family for an evening meal.”
“Thank you kind sir. Thank you. I will come to your house”.
Paul was relieved. He was also hungry. He had not eaten for two days. Fasting is good for the spirit but it wreaked havoc on his stomach. Maybe tonight he would just talk about Gamaliel. The conversion would always somehow turn to Jesus and what he thought he had to say.
In a way of atonement, this man had many debts to pay back to men, to Jesus and his followers and to God himself.
Having been young and fanatical and vested with papers that gave him and a bunch of hired thugs authority, he had set forth to Damascus to bring some men to Temple justice. Talking with his fellow traveling companions, he realized that any prisoners this well-spoken, well-educated Jew could manage to get arrested; those men were not likely to live to see Temple justice.
As if in imitation of the energy of that blinding light and a realization, along with his anger and his hatred of the people he set out to get and in anger and disgust of the people he had once traveled with, he could reflect on many things, and look into the dark caverns of his soul.
At the end of a long day of trying to find people who were willing to listen to his message, he could relax a bit. He could look into a mirror in a darkening room at twilight and see his face in guilt reflecting the life he had once set out to build and he could also see the face in the mirror of the man that he had now become.
Redemption for him was to continue the mission of people like the stoned and martyred Stephen. He saw that young man killed for his beliefs. Jesus in a direct and indirect manner had set in motion a whole new life for this sinner now known as Paul.
Beware of the strangers you meet on the road of life. Some might actually change your life for the better and forever.
I did not know the guy. He started to give me the spiel that he waved to me because he thought he knew me. I looked like someone he knew. Well not actually.
“Are you a Someway salesman?” I asked. “No.” he replied. This had happened to me before. People who sell some really junky soap powder for your clothes want to sell the same crappy soap suds to you and your friends and then start selling everything imaginable from their little catalogue. Sounds like a good deal. Cheap soap and its gets cheaper as you build a network of buyers for the products.
After a few more questions I hit pay dirt. I did not know the right questions. Then I switched the nouns or the verb tense and finally I got a “Yes, I am with Someway but I am not a salesman. I am a distributor.”
The guy was Hindu. I did not mention it sooner because it might have triggered a cultural reaction in you and ruined my intended line of thought and writing. He was dark skinned and before he spoke too much, I thought he might have been Mexican American. After all it was southern Arizona near the border. I didn’t know he was Hindu until he spoke with a slight accent.
Well I am a curious fellow and I like to chew the fat like anybody and in spite of the blazing hot summer sun, I continued in conversation. In a few more lines of conversation, I was asking him cultural questions about being Hindu. I was curious about their religious feasts. And the best I got out of him was yes he had a lot of relatives and yes they had holidays but mostly Hindu families like to get together to eat and eat and eat.
In many ways, this distributor was not much different than anybody else I knew here in America. I think of that random meeting in a parking lot and of course he gave me his card in case I changed my mind or if my brother in law wanted to sell suds.
I harken back to an earlier time when a man is standing in front of a synagogue and is engaging strangers in chit chat and conversation. This man is a stranger in town. Until he speaks, the natives have no clue who he is or where he is from. His dress is quite common for this town along a Roman road in Asia Minor, the country of Turkey in today’s geography. His accent is a little strange but you can’t quite put a finger on its origin. The man is Jewish in outward manners and wants to talk about some local gossip or a phrase that the local rabbi dropped in the synagogue on Sabbath.
Paul calls himself an apostle. He talks about having been a tentmaker. Do you have any tents that need repair? He could do it very cheaply. He had learned the trade when he spent two years in the far away exotic place of Arabia. He disclosed this without much explanation. The Arabia thing goes over most people’s heads. If they had ever heard of Arabia they knew that is was outside the realm of Roman control. Pirates abound in the waters off this exotic sounding country. If anything, a man or two of the world might think of that destination as the end of the line in terms of caravans snaking their way all around the Middle East and all the way to even more exotic sounding places like India or China.
“You say you studied Mosaic Law under the great Gamaliel?” Paul was forever careful. There were spies everywhere. With a simple question and a simple answer he might be labeled a trouble maker and thrown into a Roman jail but only after the locals had beaten him up. He was a Roman citizen. That was enough most of the time to get a Roman soldier or magistrate to give him the edge and the benefit of the doubt in any local dispute with natives that did not have the same rights of a Roman free man.
“I heard him talk a number of times. He is a brilliant man, a great scholar and a true man of the Almighty.” In truth he had not studied for long at the Temple. He had heard of Gamaliel and his defense of the new cult of Jesus before a local Temple administrative hearing.
“And now I tell you: Stay away from these men, and leave them alone. If their plan comes from human authority, it will fail. But if it is from God, you will not be able to stop them. You might even be fighting against God himself!” Acts 5:38-39
“I am busy right now Paul from Tarsus. I have errands. Come to my house later. We will talk. Join me and my family for an evening meal.”
“Thank you kind sir. Thank you. I will come to your house”.
Paul was relieved. He was also hungry. He had not eaten for two days. Fasting is good for the spirit but it wreaked havoc on his stomach. Maybe tonight he would just talk about Gamaliel. The conversion would always somehow turn to Jesus and what he thought he had to say.
In a way of atonement, this man had many debts to pay back to men, to Jesus and his followers and to God himself.
Having been young and fanatical and vested with papers that gave him and a bunch of hired thugs authority, he had set forth to Damascus to bring some men to Temple justice. Talking with his fellow traveling companions, he realized that any prisoners this well-spoken, well-educated Jew could manage to get arrested; those men were not likely to live to see Temple justice.
As if in imitation of the energy of that blinding light and a realization, along with his anger and his hatred of the people he set out to get and in anger and disgust of the people he had once traveled with, he could reflect on many things, and look into the dark caverns of his soul.
At the end of a long day of trying to find people who were willing to listen to his message, he could relax a bit. He could look into a mirror in a darkening room at twilight and see his face in guilt reflecting the life he had once set out to build and he could also see the face in the mirror of the man that he had now become.
Redemption for him was to continue the mission of people like the stoned and martyred Stephen. He saw that young man killed for his beliefs. Jesus in a direct and indirect manner had set in motion a whole new life for this sinner now known as Paul.
Beware of the strangers you meet on the road of life. Some might actually change your life for the better and forever.
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Satan – Catholic League – USCCB – 1%
What is becoming obvious to me in the Occupy movement is that the top of the Ivory Tower, the Executive Suites, the Front Office,
the 1% is totally corrupt and out of control – Out of Touch with my definition of reality.
This is no different with the RC Hierarchy who have Satanic media spokesmen
like Bill Donohue mouthing plastic morality
while the Bishops prefer and protect child trafficking at all costs – emphasis on the word costs?
Just like the firing of Joe Parterno, who is no saint,
to muddy the waters about a national child trafficking ring run by the mafia out of Penn State is not newsworthy.
Lame Stream Media talks sports, sports, sports …
The real news is that the great immorality is gay marriage?
(I don’t think so sista.)
The Mormons may give up Polygamy the same way the USCCB officially gives up Pedophilia – yeah right –
but the people pushing morality as a media product, from the top of society’s shit heap, are the least moral creatures in the western culture these days - they are jus
Faking IT!
Faking IT!
They are Satan – they are the 1%.
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Penn State National Pedophile Ring Cover Up Continues? – Joe “the Pope” Paterno Scapegoated to muddy the Issue?
Missing D.A. Ray Gricar
It would be great to fire Joe the Pope in Rome, Vatican City, and declare an end to the ongoing Pedophile Cover up by the USCCB and declare the problem over. But the bureaucracy, the Swiss Guards, the Vatican Bank and “jus forget bout it” indicted Bishop Finn in Kansas City and his special relationship to Father Ratigan will not just go away. Reality is reality. Science and all that and not magic.
So too, with Joe the Pope in Happy Valley, State College Pennsylvania, taking the Lion's share of the blame here with his firing - does the national pedophile ring operating out of Penn State, supposedly operating under everybody's rural pumpkin noses, under cover of Sandusky's Charity and supposedly sellings kids to rich donors, is it still operating or has the operation moved elsewhere???
This - leaving Joe Paterno to hold the bag and draw all the attention of sports writers - Lame Stream Media - writing about every thing other than the elephant in the room, the mafia big business child trafficking thing that probably lead to the mysterious death of the District Attorney that went missing in 2005 and who came up against OMERTA – SILENCE - from everybody including the college president all the way down to the campus police???
This - leaving Joe Paterno to hold the bag and draw all the attention of sports writers - Lame Stream Media - writing about every thing other than the elephant in the room, the mafia big business child trafficking thing that probably lead to the mysterious death of the District Attorney that went missing in 2005 and who came up against OMERTA – SILENCE - from everybody including the college president all the way down to the campus police???
RIP? Ray Gricar – sleeping with the fishes and Jimmy Hoffa? He knew too much!
Revealed: Prosecutor who failed to nail Penn State coach for 'sex abuse' vanished in 2005 and was declared 'legally dead' this year
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2060027/Ray-Gricar-disappeared-2005-tried-bring-sex-abuse-case-Penn-States-Jerry-Sandusky.html#ixzz1dXLO29wS
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2060027/Ray-Gricar-disappeared-2005-tried-bring-sex-abuse-case-Penn-States-Jerry-Sandusky.html#ixzz1dXLO29wS
The district attorney who tried and failed to prosecute Jerry Sandusky in 1998 after reports of sexual abuse emerged, has been missing since 2005 and was declared legally dead in July.
Ray Gricar disappeared on April 15 six years ago after telling his girlfriend he was going for a drive.
His body was never found, only his abandoned car and his laptop which had been tossed in the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania without its hard drive.
In 1998, Gricar had attempted to bring a case against Penn State former football defence coordinator Jerry Sandusky on child rape charges.
The case of Sandusky, accused of years of abuse of boys that allegedly was covered up by school officials, has shaken the university and its football programme.
Last night, legendary head coach of Penn State Joe Paterno was fired amid allegations of a cover up.
When it came to the Sandusky allegations 13 years ago, friends and former co-workers said Gricar would never have backed down if he had a strong case.
The lawyer's nephew Tony Gricar told The Patriot-News:
'One thing I can say is that Ray was beholden to no one, was not a politician.'
The DA had a 'bitter taste in his mouth' for the Penn State program and Coach Sandusky, added his nephew.
Montour County District Attorney Robert Buehner Jr, a friend of the missing man, told the New York Times that if Gricar had committed suicide, he would have wanted his body found.
No suspects have ever emerged after investigations into Gricar's death.
Friday, November 11, 2011
In Memoriam – one Tree, two
They cut two trees down in the courtyard the other day. They are installing solar panels on the roof of the apartment building. The trees were too tall etc.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Men at Work - Vegemite
Ingredients:
Vegemite is made from substances left over from the brewing process. It contains yeast extract, salt, potassium chloride, malt extract, caramel color, nicotinamide, thiamine, hydrochloride, riboflavin, sulfur dioxide and natural flavor.
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Wednesday, November 9, 2011
CEO Finn Broke the Rules – Ignored Safeguards in Place – Protected Ratigan – Did Not Care (about the children)
Former diocesan advocate criticizes failed system in KC
Nov. 08, 2011
By Joshua J. McElwee
Accountability
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- "This diocese is in desperate need of healing, and I do not believe that can happen until Bishop [Robert] Finn is held accountable” for his mishandling of clergy sexual misconduct cases, a former victims' advocate for the diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph, Mo., said today.
Mercy Sr. Jeanne Christensen, who served as the diocesan victims' advocate from 2000-2004, spoke at a press conference hosted by the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests this afternoon.
Christensen is thought to be the first former diocesan advocate to publicly criticize her diocese over its response to allegations of abuse, according to SNAP members.
Finn and the diocese have been criminally charged with failing to protect children from abuse.
Christensen said Finn did not use diocesan procedures to investigate allegations against Fr. Shawn Ratigan, a diocesan priest arrested in May for possession of child pornography. The diocesan victims' advocate, the immediate response team, and the independent review board, she said, "were in place but not utilized."
"By not doing so, children were placed at risk and were victimized," said Christensen. "This must never happen again."
Allegations of mishandling of clergy sexual misconduct cases have roiled the Catholic church here over recent months. A local prosecutor announced separate charges Oct. 14 against both the diocese and Finn for failing to report suspected child abuse.
The flashpoint has been the response of the diocese to the child pornography case of a local priest. Images of naked children were found on the computer of Fr. Shawn Ratigan in December last year. The Kansas City-St. Joseph diocese learned about the images and removed Ratigan from his parish, but did not report the incident to authorities until May.
While Christensen said in a telephone interview today that "it's not for me to judge" how Finn might be held responsible, the former advocate suggested others in the hierarchy should ask the bishop to resign.
"Whoever is responsible within the church hierarchy needs to say to Bishop Finn, you're not going to be bishop in Kansas City," she said.
That suggestion by members of the hierarchy, Christensen said, should come about in order to help the Kansas City diocese try to heal.
"[Finn] didn’t do what should have been done, and, quite frankly, he's lost credibility with a lot of people," she said. "A lot of people no longer trust him. How are we going to heal our church in that situation? How do we heal in the diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph?"
During the press conference, SNAP also announced a new lawsuit against Fr. Michael Tierney, a diocesan priest who has been the focus of several other lawsuits accusing him of abusing children in the 1970s. Tierney was removed from active ministry in the diocese June 2 after the independent review board met with a person accusing Tierney of abuse and found their testimony credible.
The diocesan spokesperson, Rebecca Summers, said she did not have any immediate comment on Christensen's remarks as the diocese had not been made aware of the press conference or the new suit against Tierney.
SNAP, Summers said, often does not inform the diocese of its press conferences and the diocese "usually doesn't know anything about what the specifics are until someone brings us the suit or let's us know what is going on."
At the press conference, Christensen said she also felt compelled to speak because her experience working as the diocesan advocate gave her a sense of the "anguish caused by abuse." During her time at the diocese under retired Bishop Raymond Boland, who was replaced by Finn in 2005, Christensen said she heard the stories of some 40 victims of abuse.
"I speak because I cannot remain silent but must speak in support of the victim survivors of abuse, for their families and especially for those who are unable or too afraid to speak themselves," she said.
"I urge others to speak out too because we must speak and act for the protection of all children -- so that no more children ever suffer abuse at the hands of the clergy."
After leaving her role as the victims' advocate for the diocese, Christensen continued to serve in the diocesan peace and justice office until 2006.
The charges against the diocese and Finn came from Jackson County, Mo., where the diocesan chancery is located. Ratigan is in jail on charges filed in neighboring Clay County, Mo., where his last parish is located.
Media reports have indicated that a grand jury in that Clay County is also investigating the diocese's response in the case, and has heard testimony from Finn and vicar general Msgr. Robert Murphy.
A federal grand jury charged Ratigan in August with 13 counts of production, attempted production and possession of child pornography.
No matter what happens next in the diocese, Christensen said in the interview her focus is on why the appropriate diocesan procedures for reporting abuse were not followed, and whether children could have been put in danger.
The fact that the advocate, the response team, and the review board were not notified, she said, "is a travesty."
"They were there. There's no reason for those children to have been put at risk."
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