Christ Christie Stronger Than The Feds – Christie Family Sandy Tourist Commercial $2Million Extra Use of Relief Money

Funds used to film Sandy Jersey Tourist Commercial may have been padded to feature the first family of New Jersey. Feds investigating.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/13/politics/christie-feds-investigating-sandy-ads/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Pallone wrote that he was concerned about the bidding process for the firm awarded the marketing plan; the winning firm is charging the state about $2 million more than the next lowest bidder. The winning $4.7 million bid featured Christie and his family in the advertisements while the losing $2.5 million proposal did not feature the Christies. 

On Sunday, Pallone told CNN that the inspector general conducted a preliminary review of the spending and concluded that there was enough evidence to launch a full-scale investigation into the state's use of federal funds. The audit will take several months, and the findings will be issued in an official report, he said. 

Pallone, a 27-year veteran of the House and vocal Christie critic, said this is not about politics.

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Pope Francis Appoints 19 New Cardinals - Snubs United States - National Review Puts GOP Spin on Francis' Appointments

Francis is starting to make a mark on his Papacy. His appointment of 16 voting eligible out of 19 newly appointed Cardinals makes a mark indirectly on his successor. The greedy power hungry United States Archbishops got a snub on this round of appointments. 

The Archbishop of Westminster in London got his red hat as an English Speaking cardinal. Archbishop of Westminster Nichols defended clergy in the recent child abuse scandals in Ireland. A poor but probably political appointment.

National Review Online puts its GOP spin on the Francis snub to US appointments. Snub? Or just a message to the RNC?

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/368210/pope-francis-names-new-cardinals-michael-potemra

There are zero new cardinals from the United States – probably an indication that the pope thinks the U.S. is already overrepresented in the college. (Brazil, with130 million Catholics, has five voting-age cardinals. The U.S., with 78 millionCatholics, has eleven.) Many will be surprised that the archbishop of Los Angeles, José Gómez, wasn’t on the list; that appointment would have given a shot in the arm to California Catholics after the scandal-plagued tenure of Roger Cardinal Mahony. 

But the pope’s decision was actually a conservative one, based on a longstanding Vatican tradition: When an archdiocese’s previous cardinal is still under 80 and thus eligible to vote in a conclave, his successor is not elevated to the cardinalate. (Pope Benedict XVI broke with this precedent to appoint Boston’s Seán Patrick O’Malley to the cardinalate in 2006, even though his predecessor, Bernard Cardinal Law, was still under 80. But Francis has decided to go back to standard Vatican practice, on this if not on other things.)

They are the following:

16 Voting Cardinals:

1 – Abp. Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State.
2 – Abp. Lorenzo Baldisseri, Secretary of the Synod of Bishops.
3 – Abp. Gerhard Ludwig Műller, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
4 – Abp. Beniamino Stella, Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy
5 – Abp. Vincent Gerard Nichols, Westminster (England and Wales).
6 – Abp. Leopoldo José Brenes Solórzano, Managua (Nicaragua).
7 – Abp. Gérald Cyprien Lacroix, Québec (Canada).
8 – Abp. Jean-Pierre Kutwa, Abidjan (Côte d'Ivoire).
9 – Abp. Orani João Tempesta, O.Cist., Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).
10 – Abp. Gualtiero Bassetti, Perugia-Città della Pieve (Italy).
11 – Abp. Mario Aurelio Poli, Buenos Aires (Argentina).
12 – Abp. Andrew Yeom Soo-jung, Seoul (Korea).
13 – Abp. Ricardo Ezzati Andrello, S.D.B., Santiago de Chile.
14 – Abp. Philippe Nakellentuba Ouédraogo, Ouagadougou (Burkina
Faso).
15 – Abp. Orlando B. Quevedo, O.M.I., Cotabato (Philippines).
16 – Bp. Chibly Langlois, Les Cayes (Haiti).

Cardinals over 80:

1 – Abp. Loris Francesco Capovilla, Titular of Mesembria (former secretary to John XXII).
2 – Abp. Fernando Sebastián Aguilar, C.M.F., Emeritus of Pamplona (Spain).
3 – Abp. Kelvin Edward Felix, Emeritus of Castries (St. Lucia).


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Hate Is A Commodity Of Morons - George Washington Bridge, A Symbol Of American Freedoms

George Washington Bridge NJ/NY Symbol of American Freedoms

I am not a regular viewer of NCR, National Catholic Reporter, a site independent somewhat of direct Catholic control, a so-called centrist POV but one that tows the party line in most instances. I do hear of articles through blogs that I view.

There was some fuss last week over an article over the death of priest in the past who had tried to minister to the LGBT community over the decades.

It was apparently comments on that article that caused NCR to shut down its comments app because of all the gay hate comments masked in anonymous named trolls.

The priest, a maverick in the AD of Philadelphia, Father Robert Nugent, was remembered in this recent article.

http://ncronline.org/news/people/new-ways-co-founder-was-archetype-priest

Well worth a read above.

But the real point to me is how the hate and threats and force of the Right is what we all have to fear especially when it shuts down civil discourse and true balanced free speech.

In many ways, the bully ways of the right, whether in shutting down traffic on the George Washington Bridge for vendetta or trolling hate of fellow humanity, Gays, is something we have all reason to be afraid of where all this anger and hate will lead this country to.

http://ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/ncr-suspends-comments-websitehttp://ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/ncr-suspends-comments-website

We ordered our Web editor to suspend the commenting feature and to hide all previously posted comments because of the malicious, abusive nature of the comments that have bombarded our site in recent days.

Comments will be suspended indefinitely. NCR editors will explore options that will allow commenting to return in a way that respects our writers, the subjects of our stories, and our readers. ,,,

Unfortunately, we have reached a point where the good that an open discussion can do is being outpaced by the damage it can cause when commenters do not respect civil discourse.

Comments that have appeared on the website in recent days have been vile and demeaning. We could no longer support hosting a Web feature that allows such despicable comments to appear, and that is why we ordered the suspension of that feature.

We apologize to anyone who was offended by these appalling comments.

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Soprano State Governor Chris Christie - Bully Ball - GW Bridge - New Yorker

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Three Most Useless Dicks in Congress

The three most useless dicks in congress - Marco Rubio - Rand Paul - Paul Ryan. 

LOL


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Last Prophet Tom Monson Considers End of Mormon Church While Reading Mark Hofmann’s Forged “Two Spade” Prophecy Letter

Rumors and or memes now reaching me how Mormon Prophet Thomas Monson is haunting the vault where the LDS church houses some of it sacred archives which in fact also house the so-called “Hofmann Archive”.

That the incompetence of Mormon cronies in the Utah State’s Attorney General’s office was the root of the recent week of legal Same Sex Marriage in Utah, now on hold per the Catholic U.S. Supreme Court. Monson is said not to have slept since the end of December.

An unknown document at one point attributed as a forgery by Mark Hofmann in the 80’s is being called into question.  

Sources also say that Hoffman is now denying having forged this particular document.

The document, the so-called “Two Spade” prophecy letter is a so-called eyewitness account of a vision or prophecy of Joseph Smith in a trance describing the end of his church when marriage becomes similar to symbols of “two spades” as opposed to marriage as a vision of  “spade” and “butter churn(s)”. 

 

That after the end of the Mormon church would see Mormons hiding in caves and cellars and eating “a bitter broth of dried roots”, (Prepper’s dehydrated soup mix?).

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Steiglitz - New York - Snow - 1892 - Fifth Avenue in the Thirties Facing South

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GOP Cookie Cutter Icons / Heroes - Joe the Plumber and Phil the Fowl Christian

Joe the Plumber and Phil the Fowl Christian - GOP Icons / Heroes


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Cardinal Dolan’s Friends – Rich Catholics Against the Pope and the Poor – A Total Human(?) Pig Kenneth Langone

This guy Ken Langone sounds like a lunatic minus one straight jacket in his defense of the sharks, the rich and his total disregard and hatred for the poor.

The quote below defending his crony friend Grasso and his $190 million severance package from the NY Stock Exchange. No Insider Trader there. Yeah right.

Anything but repentant following the revelation and repudiation of the Grasso deal by NYSE executives, Langone told Forbes magazine in 2004: “They got the wrong f—ing guy. I’m nuts, I’m rich, and, boy, do I love a fight. I’m going to make them s— in their pants. When I get through with these f—ing captains of industry, they’re going to wish they were in a Cuisinart — at high speed.”

http://www.salon.com/2014/01/04/rich_catholics_vs_the_pope_partner/

While Langone passionately defended the outlandish grasping of the super-rich like his friend Grasso, however, he has displayed far less indulgence toward workers, especially those struggling to support their families on poverty wages. Until just last year, he was a director of Yum! Brands, the global fast food conglomerate that includes Taco Bell and Kentucky Fried Chicken among its holdings — and that spends millions annually to hold down the minimum wage and prevent unionization of its ill-paid employees and farmworkers.

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Charlie Chaput Gleefully Funds $250,000 Bail For His Favorite Child Endangerment Monsignor Bill Lynn

http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/breaking-news/index.ssf/2014/01/philadelphia_priest_posts_bail.html#incart_river

Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput said in a letter to clergy and parishioners today that helping Lynn come up with $25,000 to post 10 percent of his bail was "both reasonable and just." He said Lynn remains on administrative leave and may not function in public as a priest.

Chaput described the appeals court decision as a matter of legal substance rather than technicalities.

Lynn "presents no danger to anyone," the archbishop wrote. "He poses no flight risk. The funding for his bail has been taken from no parish, school or ministry resources, impacts no ongoing work of the church and will be returned when the terms of bail are completed. Nor does it diminish in any way our determination to root out the possibility of sexual abuse from the life of our local church."

David Clohessy, director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, said Chaput has refused to "take harsh, clear disciplinary measures against those who hurt or let others hurt kids."

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Pope Francis Will Not Kiss Home Depot’s Ken Langone’s Greedy Rich Ass

There are those grubby little nouveau rich paper billionaire types writing checks for tax purposes charity and wanting everybody to bow down and kiss their ass worship their gold plated tin godness.

Pope Francis’s words of concern for the poor of the world seems to scare the shit out of the Ken Langones of this world who in his case is threatening to withhold money from Boss Dolan and his latest boondoggle of $180 million repairs to St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Fifth Ave.. (Aside: For that kind of money tear it down and build a new one. Otherwise it and the so called charity surrounding it looks a lot like a money laundering operation to Moi.)

Or Timmy, tell Frank to shut TFU. Cause Ken don't do humility.

https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog/poor-little-rich-catholics

[Home Depot founder Ken] Langone said he's raised the issue more than once with Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York, most recently at a breakfast in early December at which he updated him on fundraising progress."I've told the cardinal, 'Your Eminence, this is one more hurdle I hope we don't have to deal with. You want to be careful about generalities. Rich people in one country don't act the same as rich people in another country,' " he said.

One of the things that makes this story so jaw-dropping is the presumption -- on the part of Langone, and as ever on the part of CNBC -- that those who see or read it will sympathize with the petulant wealthy. Do you really want to make things harder for people who are so much wealthier and more successful than you? CNBC constantly asks its viewers. Do you think we can afford to let them get upset?

I do feel for Cardinal Dolan, caught between the demands of fundraising in a wealthy city and the clear teaching of a very popular pope. I wouldn't want to be explaining Evangelii Gaudiumto any prospective donors over breakfast. Still, I'd like to think that, if pressed, I could do a little bit better than "The pope loves poor people. He also loves rich people. He loves people, alright? He's not into the condemning game."

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Has there ever been an American war that has not been fought first for the interests of the Banks or the Corporations?

In the Trenches 1918

Has there ever been an American war that has not been fought first for the interests of the Banks or the Corporations?

Hollywood Stars at Wall Street Rally Selling The War - 1918

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John Shelby Spong - Not Born Again to Regress as a Child but Mature Enough to Become Fully Human

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"Missing Me Yet NYC"? - Mike Bloomberg

Missing me yet NYC?


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Army of Lawyers Hired to Harass Canadian Bureaucrats and Keep Ted Cruz’s Parents Out of Canadian Jail?

Ted Cruz is accepting free legal advice from the world’s biggest deadbeat Donald Trump who has managed for thirty years and an army of lawyers to have dozens of private bankruptcies with his major creditors and steal money left and right, all lawyered up so to speak.

I do not wish Ted Cruz’s parents jail time in a Canadian jail, that they possibly provided false information to the Canadian government on the groundwork to obtain their legitimate looking Canadian Birth Certificate for bastard son Eddy “Ted"?

Have to wonder what the statute of limitations are in Canada and the need for an army of lawyers to confuse his parents and his “Big Lie” with?

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/headlines/20131228-ted-cruz-says-hes-hired-lawyers-to-renounce-canadian-citizenship.ece

Under U.S. law, a child born with even one American parent is automatically entitled to citizenship, even if the birth takes place outside the country. Canada, like the United States, also confers automatic citizenship to anyone born on its soil, regardless of the parents’ nationalities. 

That revelation by The News startled Cruz and his parents. 

His mother, he said, had understood that it would have taken an affirmative act to claim Canadian citizenship, and that’s what she’d told him as a child. 

“There was no reason to retain counsel to analyze Canadian law, because it wasn’t relevant to anything I was doing,” he said. 

The topic came up last month when he met with real estate mogul Donald Trump, Cruz said, though “not in any significant respect.” He declined to elaborate.

Trump was among the most vocal “birthers” to question Barack Obama’s eligibility to serve as president, refusing to accept as genuine his Hawaiian birth certificate.

Amazing Grace - Andre Rieu

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World Trade Center - New York - Garcia Lorca

…For I have not come to see the sky,

I come to see the blood that sweeps machines to waterfalls,

and the spirit onto the serpent’s tongue…

“New York” – Garcia Lorca, 1930

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Different Drum - Stone Poneys

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Rafael Cruz – Traitor – NeoConfederate – AntiUnionist – Dirt Bag Trickle Down Economics Preacher – not a man of God

These paid for whores of the corporations, these immigrants who sat around for 48 years until they bothered to become a citizen and they try to shove their paid for opinions up our collective butts, well the coded talk just gets nastier and nastier.

All this “I am a Pastor” or “I was a ten minute victim of Castro” or “My son is the anointed of god” bullshit does not play well in the real world.

That if you try and say that 26 signers of 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence had some sort of degrees or interest in Theology, you are trying to block, hide your true interests behind tax free religion.

That to say what the founding fathers meant is code talk for “slavery is OK” and not just abuse of Africans by Europeans, in a modern sense you at saying that “economic slavery is OK”, that minimum wage and the right to organize as labor is wrong, a sin or in the best interests of the corporations as a new Massa Race.

That to preach slavery as Okay is treason. That Neo-Confederates are Anti-Unionists (the American Union) and these jerk offs and dirt bags belong in prison for sedition, especially the spy from Cuba, Rafael Cruz.

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“Pastor” Rafael Cruz Repeats the Big Lie – Forging the Resumes of the Founding Fathers – Revisionist Fascist Religious History

If anybody knows how to fake a life resume it is Rafael Cruz, Head of the Grifter Cruz Family in Texas. Rafael in his salad days in Cuba personally knew Batista, Fidel and Santo Claus all on a personal first name basis before he swam without a boat, breaking all world records to freedom on American shores.

Here below he is repeating a lie started by that big fat rich pastor Rick Warren about some nonsense that 29 of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence had degrees in Theology. 

What absolute total Koch Brothers John Birch Society Heritage Foundation bullshit.

http://georgepwood.com/2012/08/13/contra-rick-warren-29-of-the-56-founding-fathers-did-not-have-ministry-degrees-from-seminary-or-bible-college/

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Catholic League Appeals for Evidence To Clear Archbishop Nienstedt of Minneapolis Accused of Grabbing a Boy’s Ass at Confirmation

I must say the police are actually investigating possible child abuse and by Archbishop Nienstedt of all people. 

Doctor Bill at Catholic League is looking for evidence to clear Nienstedt, to turn it over to authorities or destroy it if not helpful?

Catholic League:

Now—out of the blue—comes an unidentified male who claims he was touched on his buttocks in 2009 by the archbishop while posing for a group photo. Nienstedt denies the charge, adding that he has never inappropriately touched anyone. Moreover, he has not been told the identity of his accuser.

The Catholic League is asking those who were there to share with us any information they have. Specifically, we are interested in obtaining a tape recording, or set of photos, of any Confirmation ceremony in 2009 where Archbishop Nienstedt was present; presumably, the alleged victim was standing next to the archbishop. Also, we are asking anyone who knows anything about the accuser (someone knows who he is) to come forward.  Please email us at pr@catholicleague.org.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/17/john-nienstedt-minnesota-archbishop-investigation_n_4461808.html

Twin Cities Archbishop John Nienstedt, already under fire for failing to take action against priests suspected of abuse, announced Tuesday (Dec. 17) that he is stepping aside temporarily after a minor accused the outspoken archbishop of touching his buttocks during a group photo after a 2009 confirmation ceremony. 

In what he called “a difficult letter for me to write,” Nienstedt says he learned of the allegation during the weekend. He said he does not know the young man and he presumes his accuser to be “sincere in believing what he claims.” 

But he rejected the charge as “absolutely and entirely false.”

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Monsignor Lynn, Clergy Pedophile Enabler, Bribed Out Of Jail? Philadelphia the Most Corrupt Archdiocese in America?

On the one hand your have.

”The Philadelphia archdiocese says it doesn't change its pledge to protect children and remove abusive priests.”

And then you have a bunch of typical greasy palmed Pennsylvania judges saying that Monsignor Lynn is not responsible for the welfare of children in the archdiocese. How convenient.

Cake and Eat It Too.

They don't call Charlie - "Chaput The Fixer" for nothing(-$).

http://start.toshiba.com/news/read/category/Top%20News/article/ap-pa_court_reverses_church_officials_convi-ap

Monsignor William Lynn has served 18 months in prison after a jury found he endangered a boy by helping protect a predator-priest. But an appeals court on Thursday overturned the child endangerment conviction, saying Lynn was not legally responsible for the boy's welfare.

Lynn's lawyers hoped the 62-year-old Lynn would go free, but the Superior Court has instead sent the bail issue back to the trial court.  

Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams vows to oppose bail and appeal the ruling.

Victims' advocates are outraged by the ruling.

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Cult of Ignorance - USA - Isaac Asimov

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Newt Gingrich Crowns Phil Robertson – Duck Dynasty - The Perfect Storm White Fundie (Hater) Pope

Uber-Catholic Convert Newt Gingrich looking for an ideal GOP type replacement for the real Pope Francis has just crowned Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty his kind of hate spewing Pope by twisting, spinning Phil’s hate into golden straw.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/19/newt-gingrich-compares-duck-dynasty-star-phil-robertson-to-pope-francis/

“Ironically, if you read the whole interview, not just take one section, he talks very specifically about loving everybody,” Gingrich said on Crossfire. “He talks very specifically about not being judgmental toward anybody, that’s God’s decision, not his. I mean, it is remarkable. There’s sections there where he sounds like Pope Francis.”

Meanwhile at the White Church in West Monroe Louisiana the clan gathers to worship white hetero Jesus in Sunday services and “bible study”.

American Fundamentalist Vatican - West Monroe Louisiana

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2013/12/23/charlie-sheen-duck-dynasty-phil-robertson-will-not-back-off/4173981/

The reality show star and church elder led a small Bible study group in his West Monroe, La., church on Sunday, and the MailOnline was there. 

 Robertson defended himself and declared, 'I will not give or back off from my path," reports the site. He also noted that this is not the "first time" he has given his views on sin. And he added, "I love all men and women. I am a lover of humanity, not a hater." 

 After his Bible study group, Robertson joined the rest of the congregation for a church service. Robertson's son, Alan, led part of the proceedings and made reference to the attention the family has been getting. "Well we've had a quite a quiet week, shot some ducks, done some shopping, ignited a national controversy," he said.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2528043/Duck-Dynasty-family-seen-today.html

Freedom to Hate - Freedom of Speech or Freedom of Religion? Or just the same old Second Amendment thing???

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Jeremiah 10 3:5 Condemns Christmas Xmas and Holiday Trees

3 For the customs of the peoples are worthless; they cut a tree out of the forest, and a craftsman shapes it with his chisel. 4 They adorn it with silver and gold; they fasten it with hammer and nails so it will not totter. 5 Like a scarecrow in a melon patch, their idols cannot speak; they must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not fear them; they can do no harm nor can they do any good."

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