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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Nun resigns after vote fraud accusation
[NEWS.CINCINNATI] Three people -- including a nun and a longtime poll worker
That would be Melowese Richardson. The nun is a bit more than a cloistered naif -- click on the headline to read the details.
-- are facing charges related to improper voting.

The three are the first charged out of a Hamilton County Board of Elections'
That would be Cincinnati, Ohio, and some suburbs...
investigation that found a handful of people improperly cast at least two ballots that were counted in the November 2012 election.

"Elections are a serious business and the foundation of our democracy," Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters said. "... individual votes may not seem important, but this could not be further from the truth."
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Melowese Richardson
Posted by: Fred || 03/12/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Melowese? I don't even gotta look...
Posted by: tu3031 || 03/12/2013 0:41 Comments || Top||

#2  ...Some of the most viciously political people I've ever known were nuns or priests. While stationed at what used to be Wurtsmith AFB MI, a group of nuns, priests, and "lay workers" tried to sneak onto the base as an anti-nuclear protest. They got caught and thrown off almost instantly, but then showed up on Detroit TV news reports with these incredible lies about all the things they had supposedly seen/done while wandering around the base.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 03/12/2013 5:30 Comments || Top||

#3  Sisters of Mercy - Hermanas de la Misericordia

How We Serve:

Each year in November, Sisters of Mercy, Mercy associates, Companions, co-workers, students in our schools and friends join others in advocating for closing the School of the Americas / Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation at Fort Benning, Georgia.

We stand in solidarity with the peoples of Latin America, since many of the officers trained at the SOA/WHINSEC have been implicated in atrocities in their home countries. High-profile cases linked to the SOA include the killings of Archbishop Oscar Romero, the four U.S. churchwomen and the Jesuits, their housekeeper and her daughter.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/12/2013 8:15 Comments || Top||


#5 
then showed up on Detroit TV news reports with these incredible lies about all the things they had supposedly seen/done while wandering around the base


None of which involved practicing Christianity, I bet.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 03/12/2013 14:22 Comments || Top||

#6  g(r)omgoru, looks like the Marxist inspired Liberation theology is creeping back into the Catholic church or maybe the lunacy never left certain sections in spite of clamp downs.
Posted by: tipper || 03/12/2013 14:32 Comments || Top||

#7  Israel has long pointed out that other countries call themselves Islamic republics and are not criticized.
Because in these countries Christians are treated as dhimmies and as such know their allocated place.Criticizing these states is not one of their rights unlike Muslims rights in Christian countries.

Posted by: tipper || 03/12/2013 14:39 Comments || Top||

#8  "I was a nun. I was married to God. But then I asked for a divorce, and he GAVE ME THE WORLD!"
-- Firesign Theatre
Posted by: Muggsy Mussolini1226 || 03/12/2013 17:53 Comments || Top||

#9  maybe the lunacy never left certain sections in spite of clamp downs

Pretty much it. It's taken a couple of decades to begin clearing out the rot just in the USCCB; it'll take decades more at the other levels.
Posted by: Pappy || 03/12/2013 18:20 Comments || Top||


Government
Republicans push Boehner on 'Hastert Rule'
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/12/2013 12:01 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Culture Wars
Judge halts mayor's soda ban, calls it 'arbitrary and capricious'
[NYPOST] A state judge today put a cork in City Hall's plans to ban Big Apple restaurants and other venues from selling large sugary drinks -- a bubble-bursting defeat for Mayor Bloomberg, who has made public health a cornerstone of his tenure.

Before the stunning ruling by New York Supreme Court Judge Milton Tingling, restaurants, movie theaters, sports venues, convenience stores and other places regulated by the city's health department would have been prohibited -- starting tomorrow -- from selling sugary drinks of more than 16 ounces.

Tingling permanently stopped the city from enforcing the ban.

"[The city] is enjoined and permanently restrained from implementing or enforcing the new regulations," Judge Tingling ruled.

Bloomberg vowed to appeal. The mayor grew testy when asked if he had wisely spent so much political capital on the soda ban.

"I got to defend my children and you and everybody else and do what's right to save lives," he angrily said. "Obesity kills. There's just no question about it."
Posted by: Fred || 03/12/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Obesity kills. There's just no question about it."

So does stupidity.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/12/2013 0:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Everyone dies. For most of human history, because of a lack rather than an over abundance of food. You'd think it would be worth celebrating.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/12/2013 0:21 Comments || Top||

#3  Nanny Gets A Dope Slap...film at eleven.
Posted by: tu3031 || 03/12/2013 0:39 Comments || Top||

#4  A start, maybe now the Obama regulations will be seen in a different/better light, they're NOT forever, he just WANTS them forever.

(You know what they say about wanting in one hand?)
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 03/12/2013 1:43 Comments || Top||

#5  Personally I blame the Babe on "NCIS".
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 03/12/2013 1:58 Comments || Top||

#6  Bloomberg To Appeal Halt Of "Arbitrary And Capricious" Decision
It took the NY Mayor's office a few brief minutes to respond to Judge Tingling's order, and announce it would promptly appeal the decision. Because apparently nobody thought of the children.
Posted by: tipper || 03/12/2013 2:44 Comments || Top||

#7  "Ya left out 'stupid', judgie-wudgie!"
Posted by: Muggsy Mussolini1226 || 03/12/2013 10:52 Comments || Top||

#8  People might wonder how NYC can appeal a Supreme Court Decision.

Well it turns out that in NYState the Supreme Court is only the second highest court. The Court of Appeals is the highest court.

So, if Bloomberg does win the appeal, the consolation is we will may the headline,


"Supreme Court Overruled"
Posted by: lord garth || 03/12/2013 13:39 Comments || Top||

#9  Maybe it should be renamed The Not-quite Supreme Court.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 03/12/2013 14:27 Comments || Top||

#10  I see another problem Bloomburg has.

“We have a responsibility as human beings to do something, to save each other,” Mr. Bloomberg said after the ruling. “While other people will wring their hands over the problem of sugary drinks, in New York City, we’re doing something about it.”
He obviously believes that The Gubment has the power to focibly "help" people. He knows whats best for us.



Posted by: Deacon Blues || 03/12/2013 14:40 Comments || Top||

#11  "While other people will wring their hands over the problem of sugary drinks..."

.......anybody?
Posted by: tu3031 || 03/12/2013 16:35 Comments || Top||

#12  Yet another wagon load of much to do about nothing. How many clinically obese 70 year olds have you seen lately? Clinical obesity eventually fixes itself.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/12/2013 16:41 Comments || Top||

#13  Besoeker, at the rate they're redefining obesity anyone that doesn't look anorexic will be defined as obese.

Then they can do anything they want which is, after all, what they're after.

It's not about health. It IS about power & control.
Posted by: Alanc || 03/12/2013 16:44 Comments || Top||

#14  It certainly is Alanc, and each day that passes brings additional proof..... [as if we actually needed any additional proof].
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/12/2013 17:47 Comments || Top||

#15  Ah, but by becoming morbidly obese and dying young you are ROBBING the government of the taxes you would have paid!
Posted by: Muggsy Mussolini1226 || 03/12/2013 17:52 Comments || Top||

#16  That assumes the poor "morbidly obese" person is working and paying taxes, and he or she is not simply a consumer. Not at all certain we can accurately make that assumption Mugs. Not sure where the facts lie, but they might actually be 180 degrees to the south.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/12/2013 17:58 Comments || Top||

#17  537 Most doctors are very uncomfortable with the fact that people over 65 who are overweight or obese live longer than those who are of “normal” weight. Not only does this run counter to the deep puritanism of medical culture, but it also flies in the face of logic, because such people are much more likely to have diabetes, heart failure and hypertension.

And yet obese people with hypertension have the best outcomes, in trial after trial. And if you give them thiazide diuretics and so increase their insulin resistance, they do even better. And if they get heart failure, they will greatly outlive their thinner peers.
Here is an analysis of the ACCOMPLISH trial – don’t even try to remember which one that was – which clearly shows that thiazide treatment gives better outcomes in hypertensive fat people.

By all that’s holy in mechanistic reasoning, this should not be true, and it is all too much for the authors of the accompanying editorial. They list their objections and state:” Therefore, we reject the conclusion of Weber and colleagues that diuretic-based regimens are a reasonable choice in obese patients. On the contrary, we surmise that thiazide diuretics are contraindicated in obesity, relatively speaking.” So surmise trumps evidence? I don’t think so.

Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 03/12/2013 19:26 Comments || Top||

#18  richard lehmans journal review 18 february 2013
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 03/12/2013 19:27 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Tue 2013-03-12
  Egypt's Gamaa Islamiya to form 'militias' in Assiut to replace striking police
Mon 2013-03-11
  Haqqani Facilitator, 10 Insurgents Arrested in Afghan Raids
Sun 2013-03-10
  Bomb kills five, wounds 28 in Pakistan's Peshawar
Sat 2013-03-09
   Mob in Pakistan torches Christian homes
Fri 2013-03-08
  N. Korea to sever hot line with Seoul, nullify non-aggression pacts
Thu 2013-03-07
  Libya Interim Head's Car Comes under Fire
Wed 2013-03-06
  Syria rebels detain UN Golan observers
Tue 2013-03-05
  Chavez Dead
Mon 2013-03-04
  Twenty Islamists Killed in Northeast Nigeria
Sun 2013-03-03
  Jamaat, Shibir stay violent; toll rises to 47
Sat 2013-03-02
  Chad says soldiers in Mali kill al Qaeda's Belmokhtar
Fri 2013-03-01
  Al-Qaeda commander Abu Zeid killed in Mali
Thu 2013-02-28
  Syrian Rebels Say They Killed Hezbollah Deputy Chief
Wed 2013-02-27
  Syria Rebels Push into Police Academy as Jets Strike
Tue 2013-02-26
  Over 50 killed in battle for Syria police academy
Mon 2013-02-25
  Taliban suicide bombers hit Afghan cities, Kabul attack foiled


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