Whitewater GOP Congressional Hearings Stretch into Its Twentieth Year and Over Two Hundred Million Cost Threshold – Still No “JOBS” Bill

Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton.

Whitewater, Whitewater, Whitewater, Whitewater, Whitewater, Whitewater, Whitewater, Whitewater, Whitewater, Whitewater, Whitewater, Whitewater, Whitewater, Whitewater, Whitewater, Whitewater, Whitewater, Whitewater, Whitewater, Whitewater, Whitewater, Whitewater, Whitewater, Whitewater, Whitewater, Whitewater, Whitewater, Whitewater, Whitewater, Whitewater, Whitewater, Whitewater.

Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi.

Etc.

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Supreme Knight Carl Anderson’s Salary at $1.5 Million for Tax Year 2011 – Pay Package up from $1.2 Million in 2008 - Knights of Columbus

With the very rich national $8.10 per hour average wage at WalMart as goal for the lower wage slave/serfs to aspire to, Knights of Columbus Grand Dragon Carl Anderson’s Religious Business Tax Free Cult is doing rather well these days or at least in 2011 on IRS990 forms.

IRS990 forms for Kof C

Carl Anderson – Supreme Knight - $1,488,682 Salary, Bonus, other compensation.

This does not of course cover salary and expenses as a Board Member of the Vatican Bank, a sideline so to speak to help earn a few extra bucks for the electricity bill at home etc.

Some interesting contributions outside the USA for the Knights of Columbus

Form 990 Schedule F Part II – Grants or Entities Outside the United States

Vicarius Christi Fund - $1,583,500 – Gift to the Pope

http://www.kofc.org/un/en/news/releases/detail/1638.html

North America (Canada) “Rise Up” Conference - $19.668 - Youth Evangelization In Canada

Organized by the Companions of the Cross, an Opus Dei type sounding organization

http://thenewevangelist.com/media/gallery/companions-cco-rise-conferences-2012

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Companions_of_the_Cross

A definition of the beliefs, practices and goals (highlights) of the Companions is:

To give God permission to use the members however He wants.

To seek God's will and follow it.

To surrender fully to Jesus as Lord and Saviour

To regard Eucharist as the source and summit of their Catholic faith, and promoting its Exposition and Adoration.

To be loyal to the Magisterium.

To submit to local bishops.

Funds Distributed in United States

Highlights:

Papal Nuncio Wash DC - $25,692 – Party celebrating anniversary of papal election of Benedict XVI

Beckett Fund - $275,000 – for “Religious Liberties”

Archdiocese of Philadelphia - $70,000 – Operating expenses

Archdiocese of New York - $52,000 – subsidy for the “Catholic Channel” on Sirius Radio

Connecticut Food Bank New Haven - $10,000 – Holiday meals

Proposition 8 Legal Defense Fund - $500,000 – Support…Initiative that defines Marriage

U.S.C.C.B. - $583,675 – Pro-Life Education

U.S.C.C.B. - $255,531 – Defense of Marriage

EWTN TV - $17,500 – Production Costs

K of C Charities USA - $1,900,000 – Improvement of Rome playgrounds (Rome NY?)

Whatever.

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Congressional “Screw the Workers” Bill to Replace Overtime Pay with Comp Time “H.R. 1406: Working Families Flexibility Act of 2013”

Pay your Bills with Comp Time!

People, workers, are now the enemies of Congress?

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr1406/text

Section 7 of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 207) is amended by adding at the end the following:

(s) Compensatory Time Off for Private Employees-

(1) GENERAL RULE- An employee may receive, in accordance with this subsection and in lieu of monetary overtime compensation, compensatory time off at a rate not less than one and one-half hours for each hour of employment for which overtime compensation is required by this section.

(2) CONDITIONS- An employer may provide compensatory time to employees under paragraph (1)(A) only if such time is provided in accordance with--

COMPENSATION DATE- Not later than January 31 of each calendar year, the employee’s employer shall provide monetary compensation for any unused compensatory time off accrued during the preceding calendar year that was not used prior to December 31 of the preceding year at the rate prescribed by paragraph (6). An employer may designate and communicate to the employer’s employees a 12-month period other than the calendar year, in which case such compensation shall be provided not later than 31 days after the end of such 12-month period.

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Corrupt Chinese Officials Parking Their Money in Manhattan’s New Housing Bubble - $6.5 Million For Two Year Old’s 2029 Dorm Room at NYU

The only reason I mention this is that once the greedy bastards who rule this planet inflate real estate in Manhattan to hide their theft and corrupt earnings, they cause inflation in Manhattan. Then the market inflates borough by borough down to my peasant level.

 

With the average wage nationwide at WalMart something like $8.10 an hour, I guess we should be grateful that some of that Chinese slave labor money makes its way back into the pocket of one real estate mogul like Donald Trump and his paper rich ilk.

Or the Chinese are getting out of their own hyper-inflated housing bubble that is about to burst?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/9954488/Chinese-family-buys-4-million-New-York-flat-for-two-year-old.html

Kevin Brown, a senior vice president at Sotheby's International who specialises in selling New York's most prestigious property, said the unnamed woman had snapped up the flat in preparation for when her child eventually becomes a student.

"We were running around the city looking at things and I finally said: 'Well why are you buying?'" Mr Brown said to CCTV, the Chinese state broadcaster.

"And she said, well, her daughter was going to go to Columbia, or NYU or maybe Harvard and so she needed to be in the centre of the city and that was why she was picking this one particular apartment. So I said: 'Oh, how old is your daughter?' and she said: 'Well she's two'. And I was just shocked."

Mr Brown said Chinese buyers now make up a quarter of his business, in dollar terms."What is more interesting is that two years ago, it was only 15 per cent. And before that it was five per cent," he said. "Most Chinese want to be by Central Park, but they are not interested in the park view. They want a southern exposure."

While foreigners only account for two to three per cent of the houses sold in New York, around 11 per cent of that market is now made up by Chinese, who spent $9 billion on property in the United States last year.

The news of the purchase inevitably raised eyebrows in China, with most on the internet curious about where the money had come from. Several comments left on Weibo, China's version of Twitter, suggested that the woman must have been related to a corrupt government official.

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Mother's Day Carnations - Philly

There was this tradition at church when I was younger in Philly, of adults wearing pink or white carnations for their parents on either Mother's Day or Father's Day.

Pink for a living mother or white for a deceased mother on Mother's Day.

I do not know if the custom was local, citywide or just a way for florists to sell flowers. In any case a Joy filled Mother's Day to the very backbone of all our existence - Mom.

Happy Mother's Day to all moms, living and those gone from us. 

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George Henry Story - The Young Mother - Oil Sketch - circa 1880

George Henry Story - The Young Mother 

Happy Mother's Day


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Technical Drawing - Tower - Word Trade Center One - New York City

World Trade Center - Tower One - Tops Out at 1,776 Feet - 5/10/13

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/05/10/world-trade-center-spire/2149449/


7:44 AM May 10, 1913

                                                                                                                                             Photo - Anne Thompson

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Mark Rylance, British – Considered the Best Stage Actor of his Generation on both sides of the Atlantic

"Olivia" in Twelfth Night

Stephen Fry, the British actor, writer, director making reference in a YouTube piece stating that Mark Rylance was the greatest living stage actor on both sides of the Atlantic.

"Jerusalem"

Richard III

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Run for Congress? - Raise Taxes on the Uber-Rich - Cut All Congressional Pensions and Benefits

LOL

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Bishop McFadden of Harrisburg Drops Dead – His Legacy in Philadelphia Child Abuse Glory Hole Days Played Down in Eulogy – Liked Basketball – No Mention of Children

Bishop McFadden of Harrisburg dropped dead on May 2 at a Pennsylvania Bishop’s Convention / Conference.

They brought in the green temporary bishop of Allentown John Oliver Barres to give a flowery eulogy to a monster that appears to have been there when as personal secretary to Cardinal Krol, cases of child abuse in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia got filed away rather than be addressed.

Krol with his Polish friend in the Vatican that owed his papacy to king maker Krol would cover up for him same as for Marcial Maciel. What are friends for if not to help cover up corporate mismanagement and or downright evil?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_P._McFadden

“It was during McFadden's service as a secretary to Cardinal Krol that Krol is believed to have excused and enabled the sexual abuse of hundreds of children within the Philadelphia Archdiocese.” (Wikipedia)

I must say that officiating at his funeral was Archbishop Chaput who I think was wise not to deliver the eulogy and or did not want to touch the Krol-Belivaqua-Rigali child abuse regimes/era toxic waste site in the form of the corpse of Bishop McFadden.

http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/allentown/index.ssf/2013/05/allentown_bishop_john_barres_d.html

“Allentown Diocese Bishop John Barres today recalled Harrisburg Bishop Joseph P. McFadden's gentle nature and love of basketball as Barres delivered the homily at McFadden's funeral Mass…

…Joseph McFadden may have been a kind and gentle priest and bishop, but he always played to win,” said Barres…

  

…And his way to win as a priest and bishop with a rich interior life and a vibrant missionary spirit was a nonstop full court press for the glory of God and the salvation of souls,”…

(Sniff. Sniff. Not a dry eye in the house.)

Bishop McFadden as monsignor preceded Monsignor Bill Lynn as pastor of St. Joseph’s “Rich Bastards” parish in Downingtown, Pa.

Bishop McFadden as auxiliary bishop of Philadelphia was also instrumental in the closing of the two best High Schools in the racially mixed city, Northeast Catholic and Cardinal Dougherty in Philadelphia owing to the changing minority demographics within the city limits. His vision of the burbs only for new RC high schools in Philly I also think belongs to McFadden as part of his legacy.

Thanks to “Dave” for the Allentown link.

RIP Bishop McFadden. (I don’t really mean it. Just a press statement of sorts on the topic of your funeral like the so many press releases you signed off on in your lifetime. lol)

Joe McFadden true legacy comes from District Attorney Seth Williams at the conclusion of the Monsignor Lynn trial:

"Many in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia hierarchy had dirty hands. They failed to realize that the church is its people."

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Ariel Castro’s Rape Daddy Visitation Rights Are Still Secure in Ohio?

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http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/08/rapist-seeks-child-custody-shauna-prewitt

Thank God! GOP Todd Akin and Paul Ryan’s Male Rights will be extended to Ariel Castro in case the Paternal Test of Amanda Berry’s child comes back positive.

The Link above goes back to August when it was briefly debated during the election about how 31 States in the United States extended levels of unregulated, unrestricted visitation rights to Rape Daddys.

Alleged Rape Daddy Ariel Castro in Cleveland is lucky in that Ohio is listed on map regarding his full male rights to visit his child, should it be his child, for the next twelve years or so. 

I guess the kid will have to visit Daddy on weekends at the prison? Whatever.

That unless Ohio has changed its Rape Daddy Rights Laws etc.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57583564/man-charged-with-kidnapping-raping-cleveland-girls/

Homeowner Ariel Castro was charged with four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape while his brothers, Pedro and Onil Castro, were held but faced no immediate charges. Ariel Castro will be arraigned in Cleveland municipal court Thursday morning, and officials say they expect additional counts to be made.

...Another woman, Amanda Berry, was rescued with her 6-year-old daughter. Cleveland City Prosecutor Victor Perez said he could not comment on the father, but said a paternity test would be conducted. Sources tell CBS News that the other two women helped deliver the baby while in captivity.

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Kensington and Allegheny (K&A) - Harrowgate Philadelphia

http://www.flickr.com/photos/philadelphiaphotos/6951008259/

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Cheney / Obama Nation – Torture and Drones, Culture of Fear and Death - versus the “Nobodys” of the world, the Great Souls like Bradley Manning

At this stage of the coming Global Culture, in its ongoing development, you have those who now have the upper hand, the “people” who do not care about People - and the People who do care about other People.

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Susan LaPierre’s NRA Women's Leadership Conference in Houston a Complete Success

NRA sometimes lobbyist and sometimes shadowy beard(?) wife of Wayne LaPierre raked in big bucks at her (Susan LaPierre's) NRA Women’s Leadership Conference and Auction at the exclusive River Oaks Country Club in Houston, charity money to be distributed to NRA like TAX-FREE charities like new gun development and gun education for women, kids and toddlers. All that and scheduled sexy quest speaker Sean Hannity too. omg!

One thing not discussed by all the merry NRA trophy wives in Houston at Susan’s luncheon were the statistics of death associated with free market firearms and their natural sequences of collateral damages to the stupid masses (below).

After the Luncheon, the ladies went on to do something equally really important for the Houston community and economy, they limo-ed over to a shoe sale at Neiman Marcus. lol

The following numbers tell the tale:

§  33: The average number of people murdered with a gun in the United States every day.

§  283: The average number of people shot in the United States every day.

§  40: The average number of children and teenagers shot in the United States every day.

§  10 times higher: The accidental-firearms death rate among children in the United States compared to other high-income countries.

§  31,000: The average number of homicides, suicides, and fatal accidents involving firearms in the United States every year.

§  6.9 times higher: The homicide rate of the United States compared to 22 high-income countries.

§  85 percent: The percentage of attempted suicides with a gun in the United States that result in fatalities.

§  8 times higher: The firearm suicide rate among children in the United States compared to other high-income countries.

§  500 percent: The percentage that the risk of homicide increases when a gun is present in a domestic-violence situation.

§  57 percent: The percentage of mass shootings that began with the targeting of a girlfriend, spouse, or former intimate partner.

§  63: The number of U.S. law-enforcement officers killed with firearms in 2011.

§  6.6 million: The estimated number of guns sold each year in the United States without a background check.

§  80 percent: The percentage of convicted criminals who acquired the guns used in their crimes through a private transfer.

§  90 seconds: The amount of time it takes to complete 91 percent of background checks.

§  38 percent lower: The number of women killed with a firearm by an intimate partner in states that require background checks for all handgun sales, compared to states that do not require such background checks.

§  2.5 times higher: The average export rate of crime guns in states that do not require background checks for all handgun sales at gun shows, compared to states that do require such background checks.

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You Got It - Roy Orbison

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Rowen Atkinson, Hugh Laurie, Tony Robinson - Blackadder Third Series - Nob and Nobility

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Cardinal Dolan’s Imaginary Childhood Friend “Dirty Freddie” Threatens Ten People of God on Steps of the Decaying, Falling Down Saint Patrick’s Cathedral in New York

Cardinal Dolan got imaginative in his blog some few days ago and invented a story to reinforce his perhaps personal but definitely institutional hatred of gays.

He told the story of his sainted “Silk Lace” Irish Catholic mom and her rejection of his probably imaginary childhood friend “dirty Freddie” because Freddie had dirty hands.

Somehow in the story, Timmy had been playing with Freddie and Timmy somehow came away from the experience with unsoiled hands

Silk lace mom insisted that Freddie clean his dirty paws before he could sit down to Mrs. Dolan’s home cooking.  In the story little Timmy had invited little Freddie to dinner without conditions.

But grownups and Catholic Bishops who now “love” gays insist that they somehow have to wash their sin from nature away before darkening the doorways of decaying old cathedrals or churches in the RCC.

Apparently a bunch of gay activists dirtied their hands in protest on Sunday, in empathy for the shabby treatment “Dirty Freddie” got at the hands of the Cardinal’s mom and her imagined silk lace importance in the scheme of things, and tried to enter St. Patrick's with those dirty hands. 

Tough love Freddie!  Don’t want the neighbors to know that you ate here and left with dirty hands intact.  Etc.

That Timmy Dolan leads by example. And since he had no adult social skills, or parenting skills or heterosexual sex in his life, he deferred the way he should treat or “love” them – other people – based on mom’s limited life experiences.

Whatever.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-amodeo/cardinal-dolan-denies-cat_b_3219675.html?utm_hp_ref=religion#slide=2412226

It goes without saying that the peaceful protestors were threatened with arrest and criminal trespass by the Cathedral Manager and backed up by 10 NYPD cops on site and in face.

Moral of the story. When the Cardinal of New York makes up stories like childhood imaginary friends, you better listen – OR ELSE!

Welcome to the New World Order of all things sacred or at least (the very least) Catholic. 

Shabby Chic Saint Patrick's Cathedral - New York

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To Bury the Dead – Once a Christian Virtue – American Christian Nation in Tag Only? - Tamerlan Tsarnaev

I have to say that the treatment of the dead regarding Tamerlan Tsarnaev, a dead alleged Chechen American terrorist who can’t get a cemetery to accept his body. That the proper disposal of his mortal remains is mired in hip dip typical American street shit un-Christian politics of late. The politics of Cheney-Obama, torture and drones?

That the secular world is a brutal species but unfortunately still wrapped in the obsolete label, tag, name only grass root tea party abstract concept aka Christianity.

Two things I do not like. 

Names of foreigners like Tamerlan Tsarnaev that I can’t pronounce.

And a so-called Christian Nation???, where burying the dead used to be a virtue if not downright sanitary, from a brain dead nation that prefers to fuck the dead for their alleged crimes in life.

Hell! They even buried Lee Harvey Oswald some place in Texas. Back then we were still a Christian Nation. Half a century ago. Or so the rumor goes.

American White Male Erect Penis (all full three inches of it) Vengeance, cave man values rule in this country these days along with pounding your chest and screaming “I is a Christian living in a Christian nation!”.  

Yeah right.

Have a nice day.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/06/us/boston-up-to-speed/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

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Pope Francis to Canonize 800 Italians Executed by Muslim Terrorists in 1480

Benedict left a Regensburg type time bomb for Francis in the canonization of some obscure political military incident in the fifteenth century.  Some ethnic cleansing in the overlapping geography of east and west and in the distant past.  

John Paul II started this process and Benedict put his seal of approval on the worship of the bones of 800 victims of war in an Italian Cathedral.

Benedict’s hatred of Islam was displayed in 2006 for which he gave a PR apology to outraged Muslims of the present era, the twentieth century, as opposed to current RCC time in the 1480s etc.

…written in 1391 as an expression of the views of the Byzantine emperor Manuel II Palaiologos, one of the last Christian rulers before the Fall of Constantinople to the Muslim Ottoman Empire, on such issues as forced conversion, holy war, and the relationship between faith and reason. The passage, in the English translation published by the Vatican, was:

Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.

(Benedict XVI – Regensburg Lecture – 12 Sept 2006 / Wikipedia)

http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2013/04/30/pope-francis-to-canonise-800-italians-slain-during-historic-siege/

Pope Francis is preparing to canonise an estimated 800 Italian laymen killed by Ottoman soldiers in the 15th century. The canonisation service will be on May 12 in St Peter’s Square and it will be the first carried out by the Pontiff since he was elected in early March. 

 The killing of the martyrs by Ottoman troops, who launched a weeks-long siege of Otranto, a small port town at the most eastern tip of southern Italy, took place in 1480. 

 When Otranto residents refused to surrender to the Ottoman army, the soldiers were ordered to massacre all males over the age of 15. Many were ordered to convert to Islam or die, but Blessed Antonio Primaldo, a tailor, spoke on the prisoners’ behalf. “We believe in Jesus Christ, Son of God, and for Jesus Christ we are ready to die,” he said, according to Blessed John Paul II, who visited Otranto in 1980 for the 500th anniversary of the martyrs’ deaths. 

 Primaldo inspired all the other townspeople to take courage, the late Pope said, and to say: “We will all die for Jesus Christ; we willingly die so as to not renounce his holy faith.” There were not “deluded” or “outdated,” Blessed John Paul continued, but “authentic, strong, decisive, consistent men” who loved their city, their families and their faith. 

 The skulls and other relics of the martyrs currently adorn the walls around the altar of Otranto Cathedral as a memorial to their sacrifice.

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