Gay priests say they are being scapegoated for crimes committed by pedophiles and covered up by bishops who never faced any discipline. The interviews made clear that they now had the strong sense of being persecuted by their own church. "I feel like a Jew in Berlin in the 1930's," said a 48-year-old gay priest who has spent 18 years in a religious order. He said he was considering donning a pink triangle - the symbol used by the Nazis - and getting heterosexual priests and members of the laity to wear the triangles as a protest.

I am generally opposed to "outing" those who are homosexual unless they are engaged in political activity that helps to repress others in society who are also gay. I really do think that it is time to OUT specific cardinals and other senior church officials who contribute to this policy. Vatican City is a recognized city state -- and thus is subject as well to the currents of politics. It is time that some of the currents ran back against this bigoted policy.

The Bush administration took a 180-degree turn when the president announced he was responsible for things that went wrong in the Gulf States after Hurricane Katrina. The new policy required a new department in the White House to get out the word. It was named It Was All My Fault (IWAMF). The chief was an old Bush crony from Texas, and the staff was made up of speechwriters from the White House. The chief spoke, "In every speech, we have to include something that the president is sorry for." "It's going to be hard, because for five years we've said he never made a mistake," a writer said.

I fear our leaders couldn't care less.

125 Moby Thesaurus words for "child": adolescent

22. Austria - Bishop Kurt Krenn, St. Poelten, resigned after authorities found up to 40,000 lurid pornographic images, including child pornography, on computers at the seminary located in his diocese. (Resigned September 30, 2004)

We all know that this fuel shortage is primarily a scam.

In the course of making this point, Ginsburg's 1974 paper praises and then quotes a draft Senate bill that never became law. The proposed law has, she writes, "a definition of rape that, in substance, conforms to the equality principle." She then quotes the bill's language:

from the United States District Court for the District of Montana Donald W. Molloy, District Judge, Presiding Submitted May 4, 2000* Seattle, Washington Filed May 11, 2000 Before: Pamela Ann Rymer and Thomas G. Nelson, Circuit Judges, and William D. Browning,** District Judge. Per Curiam Opinion a prosecution for engaging in a sexual act with a person under 12 years of age.

PIL - ANWAR oil will go to Japan, and Japan, in turn will purchase a like amount from some other source, most likely Mexico, for the US. This does at least two things.

Anyone have more information on this? FEMA, DHS looked at different weather forecasts?

When the 'Chicken Little' claims it is a choice between conservation OR consumption, they fodder on chow meant for beasts, not a cuisine suitable for intelligent creators of prosperity and abundance. Common sense dictates that health and wealth is preferable to erroneous and suspect claims of imminent collapse of the environment. Sensible and responsible citizens recognize prudent objectives. But has government intervention into market forces provided solutions? I submit it has not. What it has accomplished is the reinforcement and expansion of a more dangerous predator, one of which they are a principal part.

The oil industry and its allies would have the public believe that insufficient refining capacity, restrictive environmental standards, growing gasoline demand and OPEC production cutbacks are the primary reasons for the current oil and gas supply problem. However, the record shows – supported by documents I have obtained – that there is more to the story. Specifically, the documents suggest that major oil companies pursued efforts to curtail refinery capacity as a strategy for improving profit margins; that competing oil companies worked together to subvert supply; that refinery closures inhibited supply; and that oil companies are reaping record profits, yet may benefit from a proposed national energy policy that would offer financial incentives to expand refinery capacity.

Committee Membership: Senate Special Committee on Aging Senate Committee on the Budget Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests - Ranking Minority Member Subcommittee on National Parks Subcommittee on Water and Power Senate Committee on Finance Subcommittee on Health Care Subcommittee on International Trade Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

Adept - Prove that it is not.

...We need the foot cork over here again. Jim's gushing all over the place from this one.

Here comes the blind commissioner They've got him in a trance One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker The other is in his pants.. ---Dylan

Perhaps you can show us a peer review of this paper? You know, one that says it is incorrect? If so, please let me know, as I would like to read it.

Peer Review v : evaluate professionally a colleague's work