Month: September 2010

Seattle-bound

Bishop Sartain
Bishop to be archbishop

Bp J. Peter Sartain of Joliet off to Seattle to be youngest U.S. archbishop.

Sartain said dealing with the clergy sexual abuse scandal will be one of his challenges in Western Washington.

The Seattle archdiocese has paid about $42 million in settlements, counseling and attorneys fees to about 300 victims over the past 23 years, with about 70 percent of the money paid by insurance companies.

On Thursday, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) criticized Sartain for ordaining a priest last year who[m] Catholic officials allegedly caught with pornography on his computer a few months earlier. In January, Sartain removed the priest as parochial vicar at a parish after a boy accused the priest of sexually abusing him. The priest pleaded guilty to sexual abuse and was sentenced this month to four years in prison.

Sartain said Thursday he couldnt comment on the case.

What I have tried to do and will continue to try to do is to be very vigilant in the preparation of our priests and likewise very open to the suffering of victims, whether theyre recent or many, many years ago, he said. I will be available to meet with victims and their families because thats, I think, a very important, direct part of the process of healing that needs to take place.

Good luck.

This is how it’s done

Ehnorton
Won't you come home, dear lobbyist, won't you come home?

Eleanor Holmes Norton putting the arm on a lobbyist.

Reader D:

I heard this tape of Eleanor Holmes Norton on Rush’s show, or Glenn Beck’s yesterday.  Blago should feel put upon that he’s in the stocks while other pols are able to do this thing and get by with it.

I heard this tape of Eleanor Holmes Norton on Rush’s show, or Glenn Beck’s yesterday.
Blago should feel put upon that he’s in the stocks while other pols are able to do his thing and get by with it.

Wheeling Jesuit enrollment reported stable

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Fun on campus

Don’t know how much to make of this, but in view of various reports of declining Wheeling (WV) Jesuit U. enrollment in the wake of its precipitate firing of a popular president 13 months ago, this is interesting:

NEWS9 checked in with every college in the Valley. Both Wheeling Jesuit and Franciscan universities report stable enrollment. But six other schools are seeing a significant increase in students. That includes Belmont Technical College, Bethany College, Eastern Gateway Community College, Ohio University Eastern, West Liberty University and WVNCC.

Stable is not bad, and same is true of nearby Franciscan U. (of Steubenville OH), which would seem to be in the same market, vs. the other six, which are not Catholic schools.

Fannie and Freddie our rich uncles

20090110 money printing-01
Doing our best.

Gummint offered pie in sky before you die, and look what happened.

Taxpayer losses from the government seizure of failed housing finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could reach nearly $400 billion, but likely won’t top that level as some had feared, the firms’ federal regulator said Wednesday.

Promise them anything, but give them — what? (Apologies to Arpege.)

Fannie & Freddie bought bad loans — heck, we can’t let bad things happen. Gummint is our big daddy, after all.

Hey, Daddy, I want a diamond ring, bracelets, everything
Daddy, you oughta get the best for me (scat)

Hey, Daddy, gee, don’t I look swell in sables?
Clothes with Paris labels?
Daddy, you oughta get the best for me (scat)
. . . . .
Daddy, I want a brand new car, champagne, caviar
Daddy, you oughta get the best for me . . . .

Listen to Sammy Kaye: Here.

O’Donnell summed up

"The Third-Term Panic", by Thomas Na...
"The Third-Term Panic", Thomas Nast, Harper's Magazine 7 November 1874

Guest blogger Mike Fahy sums up the Connecticut victory for O’Donnell:

I thought it could not get any better than Joe Miller’s defeat of Alaska’s biggest RINO last month. Delaware has not elected a Conservative since Caesar Rodney rode all night through a thunderstorm to sign the Declaration! It just gets better, and better, and better!

Miracles have become commonplace for Palin-endorsed Conservatives. Christine O’Donnell clobbered liberal Michael Castle, the political twin of Mark Kirk (RINO, IL), in Delaware’s Republican Senate primary, 53 percent to 47 percent.

Karl Rove bashed winner Christine O’Donnell as his entrenched RINO went down! Conservative writer Michelle Malkin labels Rove an “effete sore loser,” posting a photo of Rove thumbing his nose at you.

Karl Rove’s idiotic rant against Christine O’Donnell’s victory will undoubtedly appear in a Chris Coons campaign commercial. Obviously, RINOs are more comfortable electing a Liberal Democrat than electing a Palin-endorsed Conservative Republican.

The Freedomist reports that Rove was an undercover operative for Delaware RINOs while pretending to be a fair-and-balanced Fox analyst. Should Fox News fire Rove?

Last night, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) announced their refusal to fund O’Donnell against Democrat Chris Coons (a self-described Marxist) in November. Palin, DeMint, and the Tea Party will fund O’Donnell in defiance of the GOP.

This morning the NRSC reversed their refusal to fund O’Donnell after receiving angry e-mails from NRSC contributors. NRSC chairman John Cornyn released a statement promising to support O’Donnell with an NRSC “check for $42,000, the maximum allowable donation that we have provided to all of our nominees.” Not true: The NRSC sent double that maximum amount to Mark Kirk, (RINO, IL)!

Another RINO lie: The NRSC pledged to stay out of contested primaries. John Cornyn, chair of the NRSC, said on 11/4/9: “We will not spend money in a contested primary.”

Delaware losers: virtually the entire Republican Party, National Review, Weekly Standard, Krauthammer, most second tier radio talkers, and cap™ global warmers everywhere.

Delaware winners: Sarah Palin, Jim DeMint, Michele Bachmann, the Tea Party, talkers Limbaugh/Levin/Hannity, Mama Grizzlys, and rank-and-file Conservatives everywhere.

This is a prelude to the next primary election: GOP v. Sarah Palin in Iowa’s 2/6/2012 presidential caucus. Sarah kicks it off this Friday with her keynote speech at Iowa’s annual Ronald Reagan Dinner. Donations accepted at SarahPAC.

Republicans who hate Republicans — loser Michael Castle refuses to endorse winner Christine O’Donnell, and loser Lisa Murkowski refuses to endorse winner Joe Miller.

“You betcha!” O’Donnell said in response to someone shouting the Palin catchphrase from the ecstatic election-night crowd. “There’s another woman I’ve got to thank. Thank you Governor Palin for your endorsement…she was a vote against the politics of personal destruction.”

On with O’Donnell then! Fight the good fight again!
Sons of TyrConnell are valiant and true!
Make the proud Saxon feel Erin’s avenging steel!
Strike! For your Country! O’Donnell abu!
O’Donnell Abu (The Clan Connell War Song, circa. 1843)

Reader D:

Rush and Levin (and Hannity) pummeled Christine O’Donnell’s opponent.

I heard Medved and Hewitt denigrate her. (Hewitt has always praised Kirk, too. )

Levin had O’Donnell on last night for at least one whole segment. The pundits had me afraid to hear her voice, or what crazy stuff she’d say. She was NORMAL. Yes, some cliches, those are the politicians’ traditional lexicon. She is articulate and likeable and she was on national radio and not tongue-tied. McCain is an old dud. O’Donnell is new blood — and for those “Independents,” she’s as perky as Katie Couric.

These are NOT feminists, but they are women warriors, and Michele Bachmann leads the contingent.

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Rush and Levin (and Hannity) pummeled Christine O’Donnell’s opponent.
I heard Medved and Hewitt denigrate her. (Hewitt has always praised Kirk, too. )
Levin had O’Donnell on last night for at least one whole segment. The pundits had me afraid to hear her voice, or what crazy stuff she’d say. She was NORMAL. Yes, some cliches, those are the politicians’ traditional lexicon. She is articulate and likeable and she was on national radio and not tongue-tied. McCain is an old dud. O’Donnell is new blood — and for those “Independents,” she’s as perky as Katie Couric.
These are NOT feminists, but they are women warriors, and Michele Bachmann leads the contingent.

Karl doubles down

Parody of Bush advisor Karl Rove as Palpatine ...
Karl Rove as Emperor Palpatine in Fox's "American Dad"

Saving Karl Rove with Greta. Did she get a call from Roger Ailes? “Let Karl explain himself”? Probably not, yet . . .

Plus: Karl too smart here for his own good? Talks too much, floods us with data, Smarty-pants at head of class? You decide.

I think he should shut up. One thing to support one primary candidate over another, but to bash the nominee is not smart. He’s justifying himself in this, can’t let it go.

Reader D:

It’s too bad Karl stooped to the tactics of the Libs: When you can’t argue with a candidate’s political/social issues, attack their person. The Libs tried to dub “W” a drunk and a dummy. Reagan was an old actor who fell asleep during briefings. Almost any conservative is dumb AND crazy.

And choosing the more conservative candidate in a primary is different than choosing the less offensive of two candidates in the general election. That’s why I’ll vote for Kirk in the general…but not in a primary against a more conservative candidate.

Seller’s market

Xavier Hall, Loyola Marymount University
Xavier Hall, Loyola Marymount University

Job openings for Jesuits, but (increasingly) others may apply:

Saint Joseph’s University is looking for a president. Loyola Marymount in Los Angeles is looking for a president. University of Detroit Mercy is looking for a president. University of Scranton is looking for a president. Wheeling [Jesuit] is looking for a president.
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Once more into the breach, dear girls

Tea Party Movement
Donkey to elephant: "Something brewing?"

Those Tea Party women:

“You know the old saying that if mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy?” [Darla] Dawald, national director for the tea party social network and activism site ResistNet said, when asked why women seem to outnumber men in the movement. “Well, when legislation messes with mama’s kids and it affects her family, then mama comes out fighting — and I don’t mean in a violent way, of course.”

Red Hot Mamas.

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