HEADLINES: 2026

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"Shock and Awe also bothered me ... " R5 #160

President GWB's War of choice against Saddam?
I believed then & now that War was son Pres. Bush's idea of teaching father Pres. Bush a lesson about how easy it would be to sweep into Baghdad and regime-change Iraq.
"We'll be welcomed as liberators."

mission accomplished
- piffle -

There's no more extravagant waste than a 2nd rate military. Gen. Horner

 

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"... crook" a1 #162

"déjà vu" Yogurt Barrel

 

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Insurers could pay $100 million settlement to Baltimore Catholic abuse survivors​

BALTIMORE — A potential $100 million insurance payout will go to local survivors of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, marking what survivors’ attorney Jonathan Schochor called “a very significant step forward” as negotiations in the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s bankruptcy case continue.

“We are hoping that this momentum shift will get things moving with the Archdiocese of Baltimore, which, let’s be frank, they’re the enablers,” Schochor said.

Friday’s settlement between The Hartford insurance company and the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors, which represents more than 900 survivors, comes more than .....

Insurers could pay $100 million settlement to Baltimore Catholic abuse survivors

A potential $100 million insurance payout will go to local survivors of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, marking what survivors’ attorney Jonathan Schochor called “a very significant step forward” as negotiations in the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s bankruptcy case continue.

www.spokesman.com

 

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“We are hoping that this momentum shift will get things moving with the Archdiocese of Baltimore, which, let’s be frank, they’re the enablers,” Schochor said. #164

%$#@!
Pointing the morally indignant accusatory finger is a dismally inadequate substitute for systemic solution.

Perhaps "the Archdiocese of Baltimore" is intrinsically evil, perhaps not. Either way:

-Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. - paraphrase Lord Acton

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. - David Brin

No human culture that pretends to civilization can turn its back on child orphans.

What can we do?
If we can't rely on the church to responsibly tend to our parentless children, then who? Government ?!

"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely" Lord Acton

 

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That is funny.
Vietnam was such a foolish war, but I think it was pushed to make munitions profits.
I think the wars in Venezuela and Iran are even worse, but also have oil profit motivations.
Both the moon distraction then and now are propaganda ploys and so similar.
While both Nixon and Trump are crooks, the fact Nixon allow the Whitehouse tapes to exist shows he was not very good at being a crook.

 

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Insurers could pay $100 million settlement to Baltimore Catholic abuse survivors​

BALTIMORE — A potential $100 million insurance payout will go to local survivors of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, marking what survivors’ attorney Jonathan Schochor called “a very significant step forward” as negotiations in the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s bankruptcy case continue.

“We are hoping that this momentum shift will get things moving with the Archdiocese of Baltimore, which, let’s be frank, they’re the enablers,” Schochor said.

Friday’s settlement between The Hartford insurance company and the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors, which represents more than 900 survivors, comes more than .....

Insurers could pay $100 million settlement to Baltimore Catholic abuse survivors

A potential $100 million insurance payout will go to local survivors of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, marking what survivors’ attorney Jonathan Schochor called “a very significant step forward” as negotiations in the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s bankruptcy case continue.

www.spokesman.com

The 900 survivor is a shocking number?
Were there so many pedophiles, or were a small number so prolific?

 

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"... but I think it was pushed to make munitions profits." R5 #166

Our Vietnam War ground troops commuted to mortal combat in vehicles they called "Hueys". They were made by Howard Hughes.

" the fact Nixon allow the Whitehouse tapes to exist shows he was not very good at being a crook." R5 #166

"I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes."-- President Richard Nixon

Tricky Richard didn't resign over the Watergate burglary. He resigned over his botched cover-up.