Thursday, July 30, 2009

News Updates, 7/31

St Louis Catholic priest busted in sex sting in STL County
A Catholic priest was nabbed Wednesday night in an FBI sting aimed at men who wanted to rent young girls for sex, federal court documents filed Thursday show...

Transsexual attacks priest during Mass in Italy
Brazilian stripped naked in front of the altar

Teaching Kids to Kill Embryos
A New Generation of Stem Cell Workers

Report: 13 million abortions in China each year
State media blames problem on lack of sex education

Vietnamese police want 'No Catholic Zone' in city
Violence prompts many parishioners to flee for their safety

Inquiry called for after priest's death in India
Cleric was assassinated and left naked by the roadside

Unknown assailants rob Argentinean bishop, priests
Two gunmen stormed diocesan chancery offices

Pope's home becomes solar-power generator
580 square feet of photovoltaic solar panels donated

Forced abortion issue could unite Pope, Obama
Italians presented UN with resolution against practice

Pope's World Peace Day will focus on environment
'If you want to cultivate peace, safeguard creation'

Mexico jails gunman implicated in cardinal's murder
Drug-cartel gangster 'El Popeye' sentenced to just 11 years

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GDP In Pictures: The Truth
The pumpers in the media will burn in Hell for dragging you (the sheeple) back into this market. Here's the truth on GDP, in pictures:

...You're being lied to. Again.

Rudy to Obama: 'Shut Up'
Rudy Giuliani, who has returned as a leading Republican spokesman, condemned Obama's health care plan in an interview with Sean Hannity. He also offered, in response to the president's hope that the Gates arrest would be a "teachable moment," this: "He's actually right. It is teachable. Here's the lesson: Shut up."

Democrats resist subpoenaing records
House Democrats have declined to subpoena available records that might reveal whether other members of Congress got discounted VIP mortgages from subprime lender Countrywide Financial Corp. similar to the sweetheart deals given Democratic Sens. Chris Dodd and Kent Conrad...

The next great bailout: Social Security (the day of reckoning may finally be here)
Perhaps as early as this year, Social Security, at $680 billion the nation's biggest social program, will be transformed from an operation that's helped finance the rest of the government for 25 years into a cash drain that will need money from the Treasury. In other words, a bailout...

Govt to suspend 'cash for clunkers'

Blue Dogs Roll Over
In exchange for a vague promise of cuts in the cost of health care "reform," a few fiscally conservative Democrats agree to release the bill to a September floor vote. Have the pit bulls become Chihuahuas?

'THEY ARE THE VILLIANS': Pelosi lashes out against insurance companies

HEALTH SCARE: Police called on retirees at Sen. Dianne Feinstein's office

Liberal Democrats threaten to reject House healthcare deal
Dozens say they'll vote against a plan that includes concessions to Blue Dogs. The dispute could jeopardize a long-held goal of progressives.

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Laws that forbid the carrying of arms... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.
-Cesare Beccaria, On Crimes and Punishment, quoted by Thomas Jefferson in Commonplace Book, 1774-1776

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