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
A home office is not all it is cracked up to be.
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Image: (laboratory) aycyas.com via Frankenstein 1931
Vincenzo Kolchak comments again…
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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, […]
“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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Images: (Jake) via thinkpropgress.com: (Scorsese’s Gangs of New York) via collider.com
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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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In an interview for Royal Hot Shot Airways in-flight magazine–
THIN AIR CONSUMPTION–Mr. Greene found it ironic that his early
hopes were to be a concert pianist. He was quite an accomplished soloist, but felt that his name would prevent his being taken seriously by music producers and critics.
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Images: (Moe smiling) Godfather 4.bp.blogspot.com via battleroyalewithcheese.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 […]
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TODAY - April 26, 2010
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Photo via Yahoo.com
Workers in these careers face erratic hours and
even life-or-death situations.
Five (SIX) worst-ranked professions
America’s Most Stressful Jobs 2010
Friday, April 23, 2010
provided by
CNBC
With unemployment high, many people with jobs are grateful to get their weekly paychecks, but that feeling alone doesn’t take the stress out of the daily grind.
To get a […]
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Still from Coen Bros. O, BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU
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See video at huffingtonpost.com.
Images: (Coen Bros. film) via epicurandealmaker.blogspot.com; (Barbour) via mscasinos.org;
Chile Earthquake May Have Shortened Days on Earth
SPACE.com
space.com – Tue Mar 2, 10:00 am ET
The massive 8.8 earthquake that struck Chile may have changed the entire Earth’s rotation and shortened the length of days on our planet, a NASA scientist said Monday.
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This was one of the many films I saw alone as a child. […]
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Here is the story.
Images: (Top) Yul Brynner as Ramses in Moses via images.bloguez.com via omurtlak.com; Pyramid via;
(Middle) Wences’ man in the Box via povonline.com: Senor Wences’ arm and Johnnie 2.bp,blogspot.com via historiasdeiregatecha.blogspor.com: Senor Wences & Johnnie via magicposters.net: Head of Amenhotep III via bbc.co.uk; (Bottom) Land Rover via vismod.com; Omar Sharif s3.hubimg.com via hubpages.com; […]
science + religion today
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Feb 19, 2010
What Texas Thinks of Evolution
According to a poll conducted by the University of Texas and The Texas Tribune, 30 percent of people in the state believe that humans and dinosaurs lived at the same time, and more than half—51 percent—don’t believe that “human beings, as we know them today, developed […]