If terrrists are hiding out in a hospital, bomb the hospital.
It's sort of a new approach.
It used to be that we would try to negotiate with the criminals in order to spare the hostages. What a waste of time. So "Dog Day Afternoon". So much easier to just wipe out the entire facility.

Commemorative Air Force

Yet, I know in Galveston the Lone Star Flight Museum has one that flies in airshows.  I thought it was available to the public, but according to their website it is not.  

Looks like Michigan has one for rides.

That is very cool that you got to see it, I have never seen any of the WWII aircraft in Galveston flying, only on the ground.

Let me see if I have this right

It appears that Kim Davis' presence at this meeting was orchestrated by Archbishop Vigano who is the Papal Nuncio to the U.S. This is like being the ambassador to the U.S. Vigano is a rabid homophobe and active opponent of marriage equality.

Vigano is also acquianted with Davis' lawyer with whom Vigano has marched in protest of marriage equality. The news of the meeting was first published in a rightwing Catholic publication run by a wingnut who is a longtime protege of Benedict VI, also a vocal opponent of marriage equality and a big old homophobe.

Keep in mind that the Vatican has long been a political nest of vipers. Dirty politics is an art form in the Vatican. My guess is that this Davis meet was cooked up by Vigano and the lawyer (what is his name? Matt something?) in an attempt to both cash in on this Pope's popularity , letting some of his stardust fall on Davis, and at the same time create a bit of bad publicity for a Pope seen by many of those Vatican vipers, including Vigano, as too liberal.

It was kind of a two-fer.

What the Pope should now do , IMO, is recall Vigano, figuratively smack him around, and bury him deep in the dark recesses of the Vatican where he can no longer pull this kind of nonsense.

 Apparently, they are not married, as they refer to themselves as "partners," or "boyfriends." This was the only "real audience."  Clerk Davis and husband, were in a larger reception of sorts for their meeting. So the story goes.  

So the first case, was an acquaintanceship that goes way back. The second case was..um..not easily explained.  To me, it still seems naive to believe that this meeting was happenstance. Whatever the situation, it was determined to require damage control. Which could be considered a favorable development.

  Many stories abound:  William Donovan, the anti-gay Catholic friend of Cardinal Dolan was at the bottom of the pile; the arch-conservative Papal Nuncio, who is about to retire, pulled a fast one on the Pope, an innocence exits by the faithful (akin to the Russian peasants hope of "if only he Czar knew"}, to.. well,a demonstration that.one of my best friends is gay.

Of course, it is difficult to explain how Clerk Davis and husband got a coveted invitation to meet the Pope inside the Vatican's Washington Embassy in the first place.  That is a big deal. It is not flattering to the Pope to claim that he was duped.

 Or, just had to rely on the Nuncio. Especially, in light of the subsequent response on the rights of conscientious objectors by the Pope on his way home-- to a question whose context was a government official who would not give a license to a same sex couple. Perhaps, just a coincidence. But, come on.

It seems to me that the Pope did not want to be overt on his trip to the US. He is opposed to same sex marriage, and he rejected the appointment of the French Ambassador to the Vatican because he was an unmarried gay--which he may have felt the Curia would be uncomfortable at this time, more so than for his orientation.  

So, no, I do not see equivalency.  A religious fanatic who denies rights and imposes her religious views on others in her office is a horse of a different color, so to say. Although, in fairness, the Pope had just addressed Congress, so he had warmed to those who do not do their job at taxpayer's expense.  

The church is never gonna be right when it comes to equal rights, so take the recent good stuff on climate change and wealth disparity and to hell with all their other bullsh#t.

Oh, that's right, there is none! It's Breitbart, that magical Never-Neverland on the faraway and misty shores of antideluvian lunacy, a comforting place of welcome respite for besieged wingbats one and all, where it doesn't have to make any sense at all to ordinary folks who live in the real world, to still be very real to those fools who deliberately choose to inhabit their very own parallel universe.

There are worse films, but they merit the 4, 3, 2, and 1 minutes of what I can stand rating.

At least that's what we're told.

If an election can turn on a sentence, this could be the one: "You don't need papers for voting."

On Thursday night, Francine Busby, the Democratic candidate for the 50th Congressional District, was speaking before a largely Latino crowd in Escondido when she uttered those words. She said yesterday she simply misspoke.

Interesting story but not news for any resident.   I have many many friends in this state.  I know three other atheists.

Shrug.   Numbers have not been that different anywhere else as far as I can tell.

Researchers at Arizona State University and Northeastern Illinois University published findings in the journal PLOS ONE on Thursday that they say is the first study to quantify how mass killings and school shootings inspire similar acts. They applied a mathematical contagion model, typically used to predict earthquake aftershocks or the spread of disease, to data on shootings and killings.

Towers and her team found that 30 percent of mass killings appeared to have been inspired by a past mass killing. And 22 percent of school shootings appeared to have been inspired by other school shootings. The period of contagion was on average 13 days. That is, on average, the later events took place within 13 days of the earlier events. That unlucky 13 was the figure for both the separate mass killings and school shootings formulas was just a coincidence, Towers says.

And when you watch that disgusting performance, you can pretty much understand why the Secret Service tried to fk him over (which is not meant to be an endorsement of what the Secret Service did - the agents who participated in that dirty little op should all be fired).