The fact that Cardinal Law was allowed to resign and was assigned to a cushy job in Rome is outrage enough.
The fact that he is one of 117 people voting for the new Pope is just out of this world outrageous.
Cardinal Law oversaw a crimal conspiracy to protect pedophiles at the expense of children. There is no other way to say it. So that’s what I did back in 2002,
the Boston Globe published papers which clearly indicate that the Catholic
Church had known that Father John Geoghan was molesting children as far back as
the 1960’s yet continued to assign him to local parishes until 1993.Cardinal Law arrived in the Boston archdiocese in 1984.
Since the mid-1990’s more than 130 children have come forward with claims
of abuse at the hands of Father Geoghan. As a Catholic and someone who was
confirmed in the Church by Cardinal Law, it brings me no joy to say that he is a
co-conspirator in the molestation of every one of Geoghan’s victims after
1984. Cardinal Law demonstrated a reckless, criminal disregard for those
whom he was supposed to protect, comfort and minister. He exposed the most
vulnerable in all of society, children, to a serial pedophile.
Needless to say, the victims are angry. Who can blame them.
French flag tribute to Pope sparks left-wing anger
PARIS, April 4 (Reuters) – As Catholics mourned the death of Pope
John Paul, French leftwingers and a major teaching union criticised the
government on Monday for ordering flags on public buildings to be lowered in a
sign of respect.Socialist senator Jean-Luc Melenchon and Yves Contassot, a senior Green party member on the Paris City Council, said the government had abused its powers in ordering the official tribute to the Pope, who died on Saturday. The Unsa union said the government was guilty of double standards having ordered schools to take part in the tribute to a religious leader while having banned Muslim headscarves in state schools in a drive to keep schools firmly secular. “Let the Christians pay tribute to the head of their church, it’s a private matter,” Contassot told France Inter radio.
“Today, we have a government and a head of state who, clearly, for
political reasons, are trying to take advantage of an issue that is a private
matter,” he said. Lowering of flags on all state buildings was “totally out of
place and at the limit of legality.”
Oral Sex Safe and Not Really Sex, Say U.S. Teens
CHICAGO (Reuters) – One in five U.S. teenagers say they have engaged in
oral sex, an activity that some adolescents view as not sex at all and certainly
less risky than intercourse, a report released Monday said.The survey of 580 children with a mean age of 14-1/2 found 20 percent
said they had engaged in oral sex, compared to 14 percent who said they had
engaged in sexual intercourse.
New York Senator Hillary Clinton commented on the report by saying,
“I’m afraid I don’t know much about this subject, maybe you should ask my
husband.”
Former Clinton National Security Advisor Sandy Burglar, er, Berger, has pleaded guilty to stealing classified documents from the National Archives prior to his testimony before the 9/11 Commission.
An honest mistake he called it. They all do.
ABC News was kind enough to run the headline, “Berger to Plead Guilty to Taking Materials”. Not classified materials, just materials. Paper clips, stamps, pens…what materials? Jeeez.
You remember Sandy Berger. He was the Clinton point man on that mysterious organization that seemingly mushroomed into an international menace overnight.
Washington Post, Feb. 20, 1998, Mary McGrory, “Amid the Monica uproar, a call to arms.”
According to George Magazine, “[Clinton] went to the extraordinary length of assigning his national security advisor, Sandy Berger, to be the administration’s Scientology point man.” Berger even briefed Travolta as would a senior senator, George reports.
Travolta was part of Clinton’s efforts to soften his portrayal in the film. Travolta went to Washington to promote Scientology just before Primary Colors began filming, reported George. Travolta told the magazine, “The next day, I met with Clinton. He told me: “Your program sounds great. More than that, I’d really love to help you with your issue over in Germany with Scientology.” I was waiting for the seduction that I had heard so much about. I thought, “Well, how could he ever seduce me? And after we talked, I thought, Bingo! He did it. Scientology is the one issue that really matters to me.”
Hollywood pretty much has the run of the Clinton White House, even we have learned lately, the National Security Council. National security adviser Sandy Berger parlayed with actor John Travolta on the matter of the Germans being less beastly to the Church of Scientology, of which John Travolta is a member. The Germans say that Scientology is not a religion but a cult, a position that was long held by our government. Time magazine called Scientology “a hugely profitable global racket that survives by intimidating members and critics in a Mafia-like manner” Embarrassed, overworked White House spinners explain that Clinton is a bear for religious freedom. They are shocked that anyone would think there was any quid pro quo in the equation, even if Travolta plays Clinton in a forthcoming movie, Primary Colors….” (Hat tip: FactNet.org)
The blog No Caliban has been asking the right questions,
I am much more curious to learn whether the appropriate government entities are
going to review his fitness for further access to classified material.I am not suggesting that Berger misused any information as chairman of Stonebridge, a senior adviser to Lehman Brothers or the law firm of Hogan & Hartson. But in Washington, knowledge is power, and secret knowledge is great power. With no access to secrets, Sandy Berger could be out of business.
Powerline points us to the latest pathetic, paranoid, delusional ravings of Paul Krugman of the NY Times.
Krugman’s latest column is a hysterical tirade against conservative Republicans. But you knew that; I’ll have to be more specific. Krugman is worried that conservative Christians are about to start assassinating liberals. No, really, I’m not kidding:
“America isn’t yet [!] a place where liberal politicians, and even conservatives who aren’t sufficiently hard line, fear assassination. But unless moderates take a stand against the growing power of domestic extremists, it can happen here.”
A Consensus Grows . . . on the future of the dollar, the housing market, and the Fed
by Irwin M. Stelzer
INFLATION IS BACK, or it isn’t. The dollar is back, or it isn’t. There is a
dangerous housing bubble, or there isn’t. The trade deficit is worrying, or it
isn’t. The Fed is about to become more aggressive in raising interest rates, or
it isn’t. The economy is headed for steady, high growth, or it isn’t. That’s the
clear consensus of America’s economists and market watchers.
Bush’s Shake-Up-the-World View
Wolfowitz, Bolton and Hughes understand it–and share it.
by Fred Barnes
Anyone shocked by the nominations of Messrs. Wolfowitz and Bolton doesn’t
understand the president’s approach to multilateral organizations. The
conventional idea is that these organizations are wonderful, though perhaps
flawed and infused with too much anti-American sentiment. And the chief task
of U.S. representatives is to get along amicably, not buck the system and cause
problems. This idea is popular in the press, the State Department bureaucracy
and diplomatic circles, and with foreign-policy “experts.” But not with Mr.
Bush.The president’s idea is simple: No more Mr. Nice Guy. He believes
international organizations have failed largely and must be challenged and
reformed. He was miffed when outgoing U.N. Ambassador John Danforth rushed to
the defense of Kofi Annan in the midst of the Oil for Food scandal. Mr. Annan
opposed the war in Iraq and even declared it illegal. More important, he’s
viewed by Mr. Bush as part of the problem at the U.N.
Welcome to Canada: The Great White Waste of Time
by Matt Labash
WHENEVER I THINK OF CANADA . . . strike that. I’m an American, therefore I tend not to think of Canada. On the rare occasion when I have considered the country that Fleet Streeters call “The Great White Waste of Time,” I’ve regarded
it, as most Americans do, as North America’s attic, a mildewy recess that adds
little value to the house, but serves as an excellent dead space for stashing
Nazi war criminals, drawing-room socialists, and hockey goons.
Things are unravelling fast in the insurance industry. Layer upon layer of shady deals and secret enteties are being uncovered. One Wall Street legend has been crushed, and another is in the crosshairs. Hank Greenberg is out at AIG and Warren Buffet has a date with Elliot Spitzer. This is a fascinating story to follow. It makes me realize how much the deck is stacked against the average Joe.
Hank Greenberg Ends 37-Year Career at Helm of AIG, Faces Deposition With New York Regulators
NEW YORK (AP) — The man who built American International Group Inc. into one of the world’s largest insurers, Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, is retiring as chairman, two weeks after board members ousted him as chief executive because of intensifying regulatory probes into the company’s past financial transactions.
Buffett Is Called For Questioning In AIG Inquiry; New Evidence of Problems
Regulators expect to question the 74-year-old Mr. Buffett about documents and
witnesses that they believe indicate he was involved early on in discussions
about the transaction between (Buffett’s) General Re and (Greenberg’s) AIG, including its structure, this person said.Mr. Greenberg is scheduled to give a deposition the next day.
The transaction between AIG and General Re, which took place in 2000, has
emerged as a focus of a broad regulatory review of “nontraditional” insurance
products that regulators believe may have been used by companies to improperly
boost their financial positions. The transaction involves reinsurance, a type of
insurance for insurance companies.
Old friend Don Luskin has never been fond of Elliot Spitzer and his never ending investigations, as he made clear on Pundit Review Radio. However, he isn’t exactly shedding a tear for Warren Buffett,
I hate to see any business fall victim to government’s regulatory vultures.
But as long as having the liver of capitalism clawed out is the order of the
day, I’m delighted to see the self-righteous Warren Buffett get bloodied by the
talons.