Pope Picks Leader for Catholic Order
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: July 9, 2010
Filed at 7:56 a.m. ET
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI on Friday named a senior Vatican official to run the scandal-plagued Legionaries of Christ after an eight-month investigation of the order.
Images: (Widmark) from KISS OF DEATH via blogs.e-rockford.com; (Pope) AP Photo(?) via lewandpolitics.com
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You know this would be more tolerable if the press and especially papers like the LA TIMES didn’t wrap themselves in the rhetoric of their sacred mission.
The Daily News, as you have many times suggested, has the decency to be what it appears to be and the ‘trinity that includes the STAR, the GLOBE and the NATIONAL ENQUIRER, which never ceases to surprise for working hard to get stories, don’t pretend to be more than they are. Even the GLOBE with its pictures of statesmen with a space alienS are deserving of
more respect.
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What did the Godfather say: “…it doesn’t make any difference to me what a man does for a living, understand…” He tagged it with, “…but your business is, uh, a little dangerous.”
In this case the tag for the LA Times should be, “But your business is just a little bit sleazy.”
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Images: (Godfather-back yard) via listverse.files.wordpress.com; (Godfather-standing) via multifamilyinvestore.com; (Godfather-office) via moviequotesandmore.com; (Irwin Mainway) snlarc.jt.org; (Solozzo-toddler) horroria.com via mooviees.com; (King Kong poster) via movieposter.com;
“Not a bad page at all — I enclose another article, mainly for the headline.
I have never heard the words ’strip club’ and ‘magnate’ used in the same context. ‘Socialite’ yes, maybe ‘czar,’ ‘local boss’ of course; but ‘magnate,’ never.”–Vincenzo Kolchak
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Image: (Edward Arnold) via nndb.com
Saudi Arabia Convicts 15 Men, Women For Mingling At Party
ABDULLAH AL-SHIHRI | 06/22/10 12:31 PM | AP
RIYADH — Judicial officials say a Saudi court has convicted four women and 11 men for mingling at a party and sentenced them to flogging and prison terms.
The men, who are between 30 and 40 years old, and three of the women, who are under the age of 30, were sentenced to an unspecified number of lashes and one or two year prison terms each.
The fourth woman, a minor, was sentenced to 80 lashes and was not sent to prison.
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My pal, Patapsco Jack, added: “Senor Wences, call your office.”
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Officials say a Southwest Airlines worker stumbled across a few boxes of human heads at the Little Rock, Ark., airport.
It turns out the heads found June 9 were bound for a medical laboratory in Fort Worth, Texas. But Pulaski County coroner Garland Camper says he’s waiting for records showing the heads were legally obtained and were being legally shipped.
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Images: (box) AFP TV; (Senor Wences & Johnny & man in box) Life Magazine-michelelafong.com;
(hat) landenweb.net; (uni & cape) latinamericanstudies.org
Think Progress…June 13, 2010
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‘The United States “has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself,” according to senior U.S. officials. An internal Pentagon memo dubs Afghanistan the “Saudi Arabia of lithium.”’
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How about these grabbers?
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The Dubai of Depakote!
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The Egypt of Elavil!
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The Somalia of Cymbalta!
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The Libya of Librium!
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The Pakistan of Prozac!
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The Syria of Seroquel!
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The Lebanon of Klonopin!
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The Jordan of Janimine!
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The Iran of Neurontin!
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The Iraq of Zoldac!
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Images: (basic billboard pix) via treehugger.com; (oiled Pelican) AP Photo via huffingtonpost.com; (clean Pelican) via kookaburra.typepad.com
*Images: (Schiavone) Michael Spingler/Associated Press; (Rafael Nadal) Clive Brunskill/ Getty Images; both via nytimes.com; (Village of the Damned–1995–John Carpenter) via witneyman.files.wordpress.com
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WASHINGTON — In what could be one of the hardest blows to the al-Qaida crime family since they muscled their way to the top of the gaming industry, the group’s No. 3, Moe “Mustafa Abu al-Yazid” Greene, is believed to be dead, killed by a rival Las Vegas faction, an attorney with the U.S, Anti-Crime Strike Force said on Sunday.
Moe Greene’s reputation for violence allowed him to cow Las Vegas competitors into selling their stakes in casinos and gambling books. At the time of his death, rough estimates show his personal wealth to be in the tens of millions of dollars; yet there isn’t even a plaque, or a signpost or a statue of him in that town!
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Photo via Huffington Post
Thanks to Mario Puzo & Francis Ford Coppola for the inspiration.
