[Fox] A convicted cop killer spoke to a graduating class at a Vermont college Sunday despite outrage over his invitation, telling the students they should strive to make the world "better." Vermont? Oh well, that explains quite a lot.
Mumia Abu-Jamal spoke by video to 20 students receiving bachelor degrees from Goddard College in Plainfield. He earned a degree from the college in 1996. Names and photographs of the 20 students was unavailable.
"Think about the myriad of problems that beset this land and strive to make it better," Abu-Jamal said in the video. I can think of a way he could "make it better."
[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] A top civil rights lawyer has been accused of raping a woman at his Manhattan home after Rev civil rights hustler Al Sharpton ...Tawana Brawley's spiritual advisor... 's star-studded 60th birthday party.
Sanford Rubenstein, 70, a high-powered attorney in New York, is said to have sexually assaulted the victim at his luxury apartment after the event at the four-star Four Seasons restaurant earlier this week, according to the New York Daily News.
Sources told the paper the rape of the woman, who is believed to be a 42-year-old executive with links to Sharpton, is being investigated as third degree.
The charge is brought when the victim is 'incapable of consent', which means she could have passed out or was very drunk at the time.
If this had happened at New York University Mr. Rubenstein would already be convicted and expelled from class...
However Rubenstein, who has appeared as a legal analyst on CNN and MSNB, is yet to have been charged in connection with the encounter.
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Someone correct me if I'm mistaken, but I don't recall the original movie including any luxury apartments or Rubensteins.
Congratulations Al, I would have never have thought you were 60, 70 or 75 maybe...but 60... you look like you are about to check out of planet earth, man.
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One Eyed, he used to be really fat. He did something to lose a lot of weight. That is why he looks like death warmed over.
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Which side of the fence is Al Sharton going to be on; The Rubenstein side or the victim's side? Will Sharpton try to turn Rubenstein into a victim? Reubenstein didn't get enough birthday presents? Inquiring minds want to know (well, maybe not). Maybe this was a shakedown? This 70 year guy certainly has a lively libido. If this is true, the guy should be called "Sap"-erstein.
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As far as I can tell, this Marine brought the problems onto himself. The rest of the story is here: http://www.sandiegored.com/noticias/53181/Andrew-Tahmooressi-Fires-Lawyer-As-Story-Unravels-What-next/
Beginning Saturday, callers to 911 complaining of Ebola-like symptoms, such as high fever and nausea, will be grilled about their recent travel history. And if they've been to one of the African countries affected by the virus, paramedics will show up in protective suits.
The city's 11 public hospitals recently launched an aggressive campaign to watch out for Ebola patients, even sending in undercover workers masquerading as potential victims to assess ER staff preparedness.
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Announcement today (via Drudge) is that the Customs and Border patrol will be screening air traffic pax as they transit the airports.
Somehow that doesn't give me a great deal of confidence.....
Two questions:
1) What kind of training do they get?
2) How many refuse/resign/get fired because they didn't sign up for 'this sh!t?'
The complaint was filed on Sunday morning by a concerned Dallas citizen who read about Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins going into the apartment where Ebola patient, Thomas Eric Duncan, lived while he was sick. He was in the apartment with four people who had been directly exposed by Duncan to the Ebola virus. Jenkins said, in a subsequent press conference he was going home to his wife and nine-year-old daughter after a subsequent press conference where he discussed being in the apartment again and driving the exposed family to their new home -- a forty-five minute drive. At no point did Jenkins appear to wear any protective clothing.
[Ynet] The Foreign Ministry announced it will set up three mobile emergency clinics in Africa to treat Ebola patients. The move was decided on after Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon rejected a special request by the US and UN to send IDF field hospitals to Ebola hit Liberia and Sierra Leone.
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If the locals have a conniption about this, tell them "think Jewish doctor. If you got to New York, you get a Jewish doctor. You go to LA, you get a Jewish doctor. We brought it to you."
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[TRUTHREVOLT.ORG] Dallas Weekly had a real gaffe last week with one of the most poorly timed covers in memory. Just as the city is cleaning up and sterilizing the places where Ebola victim Thomas Duncan visited after returning from Liberia, the magazine published online their latest issue, featuring the sure to be infamous cover and headline " 'Taste of Africa' Comes To Dallas."
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Following the publication of Dallas Weekly, VP Biden was heard to say, "Wish I had thought of that, that's great."
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A plain vanilla lifestyle article about international food. What could possibly go wrong? Just this: no matter what your plans, Murphy always gets a turn at bat.
We have seen it in more complex systems like the Dallas hospital breakdown. Here it is something as simple as a magazine cover overtaken by external events. And yeah, this is funny as heck.
[HOSTED.AP.ORG] Animal control officer Wanda Snell knows what she saw: A veterinarian inserted a needle into the black-and-brown mutt and injected a chemical meant to euthanize the dog no one had adopted. The animal moved a bit and was still and quiet by the time she left the shelter for home.
What Snell can't explain is how or why a mixed-breed dog that nobody wanted recovered overnight and has since bounced back fully from what should have been a lethal injection.
Less than a month later, the dog lives with a family in a suburb of the Alabama city of Birmingham, where the animal romps and plays with another rescue dog. His survival seemed all the more surprising since the same dog already been struck by a car before arriving at the Ozark City Animal Shelter.
A rescue worker who retrieved the roughly 4-year-old male dog after the failed procedure named him "Lazarus" after the man the Bible says Jesus brought back to life. Snell has another name for that escape artist of a dog. "I call him Houdini," she said.
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Story with a good ending. Lazarus certainly had the will to live. Could have named him after the Sears battery--"Diehard!."
[USAToday] As B.O. regime officials sought to reassure Americans about efforts to contain Ebola in the wake of the first U.S. case, the military announced Friday that an additional 1,000 troops could be sent to West Africa to help fight the virus.
And that number could go higher than that, said Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary.
"I'm not going to put a floor or ceiling on this," Kirby said.
President B.O. initially ordered 3,000 troops to West Africa to help build hospitals, labs and treatment centers and provide logistics help. They are not going to treat Ebola victims.
"We are not going to be in the treatment business," Kirby said.
Then why are we there?
The new deployment includes soldiers from Army posts around the country and include engineers, logistics and civil affairs experts and military coppers.
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is this a new form of war? declared by Congress? or has the military become a branch Without Borders of a non-profit organization to be sent around the world at the whim of His Presidential Majesty?
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[SHARYLATTKISSON] At least five children infected with the respiratory illness known enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) have died in the U.S. in the past month.
The lastest confirmed victim was a four-year-old New Jersey boy, Eli Waller. He died at home on September 25. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) confirmed the cause of death Friday night. But health officials say they have no idea how he contracted the virus. A health official says Eli was "asymptomatic and fine" when he went to bed but died overnight. He had no known preexisting immune weakness.
A 10-year girl Rhode Island girl infected with EV-D68, Emily Otrando, died less than 24 hours after being rushed to the hospital with breathing problems. Three other patients with EV-D68 also died in September.
The CDC reports that in the past month and a half, at least 538 people in 43 states and the District of Columbia have become ill with EV-D68. Most of them are children and some developed limb paralysis. Polio, which can cause paralysis and death, is a type of enterovirus. EV-D68 is one of more than a hundred "non-polio" enteroviruses.
The actual number of EV-D68 infections is likely significantly higher than reported since some state health officials are not testing every suspected case.
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At least one epidemiologist has suggested that Enterovirus D68 may come from illegal kids from Central America being placed in American cities. Epidemiologist. There are several things about this virus that would suggest this possibility:
1. The virus has been rare in the U.S. until now and has occurred only in small localized clusters previous to this year.
2. The country-wide epidemic of this virus parallels the arrival of some 50,000 unaccompanied Central American kids and the placement of those kiddies in cities across the country.
3. The fact that it is difficult to obtain case distribution numbers across the country and also where the kids were placed to do relationship analyses raises suspicions.
4. 500 cases have been reported to the CDC. However, the numbers of cases appears to be much higher.
5. It would seem that it would be easy enough to perform a DNA analysis of the virus in Central American children and also in children with the virus in the U.S. to determine whether or not the virus is the same. I've not seen any reports on this analysis.
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Keep you sick kids away from the school grounds and isolated at home where they can be properly treated and not spread germs, unless of course they are commuting from Libaria, or any other central African republics.
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Those who've live (and survive) in a population pool tend to have developed immunities that those who have not been in that same pool would not have. Mix the pools together and, voila, get a die off.
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P2K. There may be something to that. It seems that EV-D68 is not very prevalent along our southern border. It is thought that people who live along the border have acquired an immunity as the result of previous exposures to the virus. I do recall reading about a border patrol agent showing some symptoms after exposure to the children coming across the border.
Until now, this virus has been showing up mostly in children. Recently, there have been a few cases reported in adults. The children's cases might be linked to the illegal children who were dumped into schools across the country. The adult case could be health care workers, teachers or parents of children who developed the virus due to school contact--much like other diseases which are contracted at school and then brought home. This is somewhat speculative as there is not much public data on specific cases. This lack of available data is due in part to HIPAA laws to protect privacy.
[NBCCHICAGO] Looks like Mother Nature isn't going to let reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... forget that winter is coming. I blame Global Worming
The city saw light snow Saturday morning, marking one of the earliest snow sightings on record. It was light in the south suburbs and didn't stick.
The earliest snow spotting in Chicago is Sept. 25, which occurred in 1928 and again in 1944, according to the National Weather Service. Nuclear Winter, then.
Saturday's snowflakes mark the third earliest snow sighting since the city began recording.
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With snow this early, you guys are going to get the blues, your fingers, toes, nose and ears...brrrr.
[Iran Press TV] Peace talks between warring factions in South Sudan that began nearly ten months ago have been put on hold.
Michael Makuei, the chief negotiator for the South Sudan government, said on Sunday that the talks have been cancelled but will resume on October 16.
"It will give them (both sides) time to consult on some of the outstanding issues and sticking points in the talks, especially the powers of the prime minister and whether the president will be head of state and government," Makuei noted.
The negotiations began in January with the aim of finding an effective solution to the conflict which erupted between the supporters of President Salva Kiir and his former deputy Riek Machar.
The two sides have principally agreed to form a federal government, but there are some details that need to be hammered out.
South Sudan plunged into violence in December 2013, when fighting erupted between troops loyal to the president and defectors led by Machar around the capital, Juba.
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What with Ebola, Boko Haram, ISIS, and demonstrations in Honk Kong, nobody could bothered with showing up.
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Fighting between Russian speaking separatists and Ukrainian military units continued over the weekend as militias fought to gain control of the Donetsk airport, according to militias and Ukrainian reports.
Meanwhile, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe continued with its plans to implement the September 19th Minsk agreement, which places a 15 kilometer buffer zone between large bore guns deployed in the area by both sides.
The assault on the airfield, which began last week, continued with pro Russian militias claiming to control 90 percent of the airport in northern Donetsk city. The fighting has been reported as intense because the militias have thrown some of their most battled hardened fighting units into the fray, such as the Motorolla battalion.
The Motorolla battalion was involved in the fighting that reduced and eliminated with Ilovaisk cauldron in August, where Ukrainian military units attempted to split the two separatist states, Lugansk and Donetsk from one another by means of a mobile deep strike.
The plan failed for the Ukrainians because of the lack of forces to keep supply and communications lines open, and because of the intensity of the fighting of the militias.
Despite orders which were issued by Ukrainian commanders to withdraw two units, the 25th Airmobile Brigade and the 93rd Brigade from the airport, some Ukrainian units remain on the airport ground holed up in bunkers originally built to withstand nuclear strikes.
Militias' commanders say the 93rd brigade was withdrawn Saturday, but was replaced with a volunteer battalion staffed mainly with operators with the "Right Sector" Ukrainian political party. The losses to the new unit in the rotation was said to be five dead, but neither side will say how many new effectives were deployed to the airport. Those replacements came from Peski, which is west of the airport, which has been the site of artillery strikes and firefights.
For all the protestations of owning a large amount of the airport, casualties for the militias in the assault have been very heavy and may explain in part why they have been so slow in finishing the assault. Also, according to Russian military bloggers, basic supplies such as ammunition are starting to play a severe role in militias' operations.
At last report, the remnants of Ukrainian forces at the airport are being supported by artillery emplaced at Avdeyevka., the occupation of which is appearing to be a priority for the militias. Avdeyevka is about 11 kilometers north or the Donetsk airport.
Meanwhile in Donetsk city, artillery strike continues. Pro Russian militias continue to claim that Ukrainian artillery were responsible for the death of a Swiss Red Cross worker last week, while Ukrainian were claiming it was the militia artillery that killed him.
Ukrainian military blogger Roman Burko reported that militia claims of artillery strikes were not true and followed a "familiar algorithm" whereby militias fire artillery strikes into residential areas of Donetsk city, and then blame Ukrainian artillery units for any damage and deaths.
Such strikes have been de riguer since last summer, but cumulatively, it is unknown how many civilians were killed or wounded in the attacks.
According to Burko much of the artillery were originated from a location east of the airport, where presumably militia artillery units are emplaced.
Also, according to Burko, militias moved several rocket artillery launchers into specific locations which Donetsk city, specifically three BM-21 122mm rocket launchers into the Petrovskyi district. According to Burko, celebrations in the city were to mark the six month anniversary of the founding of the Donetsk republic, gatherings of which were to be hit by militia artillery, and would be blamed on the Ukrainians.
Those BM21's displaced to another location, the plan did not take place, and Burko did not explain why.
Pro Russian blogger Strelkov said that Donetsk government officials and war correspondents who had investigated impact craters, and concluded that artillery could only have come from regions southwest of the impact zone, namely from "Mariynskoe district, Novomihaylovka village, Katerinovka, which is controlled by the Army of Ukraine and Marinka village, which is considered neutral."
Militias claim Ukrainian artillery units shelled a number of locations near and within Donetsk itself, including Kirovsky, Kievskiy, Petrovsky, Putilovka districts of Donetsk city, and in the villages of Krasnogorovka and Peski, which are west of Donetsk city.
According to news reports, Germany will move about 200 soldiers to Donetsk to act as peacekeepers. It is unclear in media reports when the final demarcations will begin.
Chris Covert writes about foreign military issues for Rantburg.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com
A nurse who treated two Ebola patients at a Madrid hospital has become infected with the disease herself, health officials said.
โTwo tests were done and the two were positive,โ a spokesman for the health department of the regional government of Madrid told AFP.
Spainโs Minister of Health, Ana Mato, says the authorities are working to distinguish the source of the diseaseโs contraction as strict controls were implemented to prevent Ebolaโs spread. He added that there is no knowledge of any other cases.
The nurse is in a "stable" condition, according to officials. She reportedly started feeling sick on September 30. The patient whom she had been treating had died on September 25. Missionary Manuel Garcia Viejo had been helping Ebola victims in Sierra Leone. Someone should try to reach reckless judge Jenkins for comment...
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This should make it easier to smuggle and sell counterfeit parts, by removing one link from the chain.
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hope Serbia has a better handle on QA than Turkey did some years back when they were shipping defective turbine rotors and other engine hot section parts; at least 2 fatal crashes were due to the use of flawed parts. FAA had authorized those sites as part 145 repair stations.
[Iran Press TV] Ukraine's military has accused pro-Russia forces of violating a truce they recently agreed with the government in Kiev.
Speaking at a news conference in the Ukrainian capital city of Kiev on Sunday, military front man, Volodymyr Polyovy, blamed the Pro-Russians for killing two service staff and wounding six others over the past 24 hours.
Pro-Moscow forces "are violating the terms of the cease-fire," Polyovy added.
Meanwhile Eduard Basulin, a leader of pro-Russia forces, noted that fresh festivities around the government-controlled airport in Donetsk have claimed the lives of three civilians as well as three pro-Russia forces over the past day.
He also accused Ukrainian troops of shelling Donetsk outskirts from positions near the airport.
"The airport is a springboard for the city," Basulin said, adding, "Our main task is to push them (government forces) away from the city so that they can no longer shell residential districts."
The remarks come as 12 pro-Russia gunnies were killed in attacks on buildings at Donetsk airport on Friday.
Kiev and the pro-Russians inked a Russian-proposed truce pact in early September aimed at putting an end to heavy festivities in Ukraine's eastern provinces but the fighting continues unabated.
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Bearing in mind that 'truce' is pronounced in Russian as 're-supply'.
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Bearing in mind that 'truce' is pronounced in Russian as 're-supply'.
Who knew Russian and Arabic languages were so similar?
[Iran Press TV] Democracy in the United States is a "hollow myth" which has led to the American people losing confidence in the "oligarchy ... derived from the Greek words oligos, a few and the verb archo, to rule, to govern, to command. Oligarchies are invariably effectual rather than established, to whit, they disguise themselves as other systems, working as the real government behind the face of of democracy, fascism, socialism, monarchy, or what have you... system" running the country, a researcher and historian in Washington says.
"The American public doesn't have real reason to trust their government right now that seems to only work for the rich and work for people in Israel," Randy Short told Press TV on Sunday.
"Democracy in reality is a hollow myth for the rich. The oligarchical system of America is becoming more and more evident to even the American public," Shorts stated.
He said the US government suffers from a "lack of leadership, a lack of vision, a lack of passion about solving problems that the American people face, (such as) mass unemployment, the collapsing infrastructure, the lack of care for seniors, the collapsing school system, the lack of jobs."
"The American public doesn't see leadership and they don't see voting as necessarily as being the answer because you a monopoly of a two party system."
"They (American people) look at the US government giving billions of dollars to terrorist groups in Syria and now the same terrorist groups that we funded are gonna be fought as number one domestic terror threat."
According to new poll, most Americans are "not confident" that the US government can effectively minimize the threat posed from terrorist attacks, mass shootings, racial tensions and economic uncertainty in the US.
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Democracy is doing just fine. Thats the problem. What we have is a REPUBLIC. Being a republic of laws where the individual (not the mob or government) is paramount is what has made the US exceptional, and a beacon of liberty.
The replacement of the individual with the group (collective) is an oncoming disaster being brought to us by progressives and democrats, and other collectivists (socialist, communists). They must be stopped.
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Ask, Seek, Knock - Matthew 7:7 - Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
You asked for an affirmative action leader, you got one, (quite a find), You knocked (likely your knees, I suspect) and the door opened (just like opening Pandora's box).
Democracy ? - well you got what you asked for Hope and Change, very sour taste isn't it, loosing Democracy and the Republic, loosing control of your country to alien invaders being helped by the very government you elected, loosing control of your medical services and insurance, loosing control of your security both domestically and internationally, and possibly loosing your life to an air born virus, loosing and loosing; and now you hope it will change.
Be careful the next time you Ask, Seek, Knock, if there is a next time.
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Either way the US system is in jeapordy because to few educate themselves before they vote. I'm opposed to some kind of poll test but its starting to seem more and more necessary.
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The when we began losing the Republic is very precise, thanks to Democrat Progressive Woodrow Wilson:
"The Seventeenth Amendment (Amendment XVII) to the United States Constitution established direct election of United States Senators by popular vote. The amendment supersedes Article I, ยง 3, Clauses 1 and 2 of the Constitution, under which senators were elected by state legislatures." Wikipedia cite
This defeated the FOunding Father's intent to bolster the power of the States to have all those powers not enumerated (10th) in the Constitution be solely the province of the states. Once the states lost the power to elect the Senate to protect their sovereign rights, the slide began towards what was feared, the tyranny of the simple majority
[DAWN] LAHORE: Kidnapping of newborns continue at government hospitals here as another two were allegedly kidnapped from two health facilities on Saturday.
A woman admitted to Lady Aitchison Hospital alleged her newborn had been kidnapped by an unidentified woman.
Shamsa Khurram had delivered a boy three days ago and doctors shifted him to a nursery for further care. On Saturday, the family found out the baby had disappeared from the nursery. Relatives protested and alleged the baby had been kidnapped with the connivance of hospital employees.
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[ARABNEWS] Pope Francis on Sunday issued a strong signal of support for reform of the Catholic Church's approach to marriage, cohabitation and divorce as bishops began a landmark review of teaching on the family.
Opening an extraordinary synod of nearly 200 senior holy mans, Francis suggested the Church must address the present gulf between what it currently says on these issues and what tens of millions of believers actually do.
Thorny theological questions such as whether divorced and remarried believers should be able to receive communion will dominate two weeks of closed-door discussions set to pit conservative holy mans against reformists led by German cardinal Walter Kasper.
Vatican insiders say Kasper has the backing of Francis but that the pontiff wants consensus for any change.
That stance was reflected in the sermon the pontiff delivered at the synod's opening mass.
In it, he urged bishops to be generous in understanding the problems faced by ordinary believers trying to live within the rules of the church.
Pointedly, he invoked a passage from the gospel of Matthew, which admonishes "evil pastors (who) lay intolerable burdens on the shoulders of others which they themselves do not lift a finger to move."
He added: "Synod Assemblies are not meant to discuss beautiful and clever ideas, or to see who is more intelligent.
"They are meant to better nurture and tend the Lord's vineyard.... In this case the Lord is asking us to care for the family." Since becoming pontiff just over 18 months ago, Francis has repeatedly urged the church to tend to the "wounds" caused by family breakdown rather than seeking to exclude or judge the many divorced people, cohabiting couples and single mothers within its ranks.
He has underlined that stance by personally marrying couples who had lived together "in sin" prior to their weddings and by baptizing a child born to parents married outside of the church.
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[NEWS.YAHOO] Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of a leading British Roman Catholic Bishop who acknowledged that he had broken his vows and who was believed to have had an affair with a married woman, the Vatican said on Saturday.
Bishop Kieran Conry of the diocese of Arundel and Brighton, one of Britannia's largest, disclosed in an announcement posted on the diocese's website last week that for years he had been "unfaithful to my promises as a Roman Catholic priest" and had decided to offer his resignation.
He apologized for the "shame that I have brought on the diocese and the Church" but he said his actions were not illegal and did not involve minors.
Neither Conry's statement nor the Vatican statement gave any details of how the 63-year-old bishop had broken his vows, but British media reported that he had had a long-running affair with a married woman some 20 years his junior.
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[Daily Caller] A Champ administration official traveled to Oklahoma City Saturday to offer words of praise to congregants at the mosque attended by Alton Nolen, the recent Muslim convert who beheaded a co-worker last month.
David Myers, the director of the Department of Homeland Security's Center for Faith-based & Neighborhood Partnerships, spoke at the Greater Islamic Society of Oklahoma City's Eid al-Adha celebration, according to KFOR.
"Your service is a powerful example of the shared roots of the Abrahamic faiths and how our communities can come together in shared peace with dignity and a sense of justice," said Myers, reading from a letter penned by President Champ. Words fail me.
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I flew a few routes of 'Aero-Nunca' back in the mid-70's. Once, at the Guadalajara airport, they came over the loudspeakers and announced (in English, as there were quite a few Americans in the waiting area) that there would be a 'maintenance delay'. Then they announced (in Spanish for the rest) that there would be a delay as they were 'fixing the wing'.
I asked around (my Spanish was much better in those days) and none of my fellow Mexican travelers seemed to be too concerned as apparently these types of 'maintenance items' were quite commonplace.
Some things never change, I guess.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[TRUTHREVOLT.ORG] Dallas Weekly had a real gaffe last week with one of the most poorly timed covers in memory. Just as the city is cleaning up and sterilizing the places where Ebola victim Thomas Duncan visited after returning from Liberia, the magazine published online their latest issue, featuring the sure to be infamous cover and headline " 'Taste of Africa' Comes To Dallas."
[SHARYLATTKISSON] At least five children infected with the respiratory illness known enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) have died in the U.S. in the past month.
[NBCCHICAGO] Looks like Mother Nature isn't going to let 
A nurse who treated two Ebola patients at a Madrid hospital has become infected with the disease herself, health officials said.
[Iran Press TV] Democracy in the United States is a "hollow myth" which has led to the American people losing confidence in the "
[ARABNEWS] Pope Francis on Sunday issued a strong signal of support for reform of the Catholic Church's approach to marriage, cohabitation and divorce as bishops began a landmark review of teaching on the family.
[NEWS.YAHOO] Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of a leading British Roman Catholic Bishop who acknowledged that he had broken his vows and who was believed to have had an affair with a married woman, the Vatican said on Saturday.
