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                         Another Foggy Moment

      These are the continuing adventures of a typical resident
      of the self-proclaimed center of the Pugetopolis universe -
      Seattle. Most are true stories but some are made of whole-
        cloth. I ain't the Mayor, the Governor or a Big Shot. Just
      another Working Stiff with a Bad Attitude.

                      THIS AIN'T NO STINK'N BLOG

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         WARNING: This is not a Child-Proof Neighborhood.
         If you're a kid - scram!, beat it! you little
         punk before your Old Lady catches you and calls
         the cops. They'll throw you in the Big House in
         Walla Walla and won't let you out until you're
         89 years old. There. Don't say I didn't warn you.
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                              - 207 -

 The Dog Days of Summer. Outside many a company back-door sits the 
 Corporate BBQ ready to cook up some lunchtime weiners or burgers 
 or steaks or ribs. The frats and sororities in my Hood often have 
 large crowds gathering on their front yards every evening for an 
 informal beer-bash with much flexing of pecs for the benefit of 
 the sorority girls and a little volleyball on the side. While 
 U Dub's sprinklers are working overtime, Drumheller Fountain is 
 still deader than a door nail. The heat has the ravens gapping 
 open-beaked as they style and profile. And the last of the baby 
 ducks are still paddling around, but it looks like the annual 
 Orgy is over for our fine feathered friends. 

 There was a BIG biking event on the Ship Canal trail this past
 Saturday. Thousands of bikers. THOUSANDS. And nearly every single
 one of them DROVE to the event. Hardly any of them just rode their
 bike. Who else but an Hootervillian would be retarded enough bring
 their bike to a biking event by car? Doh! That's like Friends of 
 the Earth having a fund-raiser by raffling off the biggest, fattest
 SUV on the market.

 On the afternoon of Thursday the 17th at U Dub's Kane Hall, the
 subversize and highly intriguing sci-fi writer Ursula Le Guin 
 will be speaking. She wrote the cult-classic "Disposessed". While 
 Wankers like Gibson, Bear and Sterling indulge themselves in 
 juvenille tales of improbable adventure and gizmo-ology, Ursula 
 stalks a higher ground of ideas and probable scenarios. She uses 
 her noggin. And as edifying as her books are they are also 
 masterpieces of story-telling. She knows the magic of giving
 flesh and bone to ideas. I think she lives up in the San Juan
 Islands somewhere. She'll only have to make a short commute to
 slum it for a day in Hooterville.

 The Bhoys of Glasgow Celtic kicked off their pre-season road 
 tour this week by bringing their Gahd - Henrik Larrson - home 
 to Sweden to show him off. The 6-year Celtic vet with a whopping 
 210 Scottish League goals, recently announced his retirement 
 from international football. For many years he was a mainstay on 
 Sweden's World Cup and Euro Cup teams. Playing against a pick-up 
 squad scrounged from a couple local teams, it was obviously all 
 Henrik's show. The Bhoys won. Henrik will likely retire from 
 Celtic after this coming season. On the 22nd,  we'll get one of 
 the last peeks at one of Europe's classiest strikers and a sure 
 bet for Celtic's Hall of Fame. At any rate, they're now working 
 their way west to Hooterville.

 ECONOMIC SUICIDE WATCH

 It's not often you get to see a World Power do itself in. It
 wasn't until centuries after the Romans self-destructed that
 Mr. Gibbons came along and did an autopsy. The Jolly Olde
 British Empire was deader than a parrot for decades before
 anyone noticed it wasn't squalking any more. We, on the other
 hand are video-taping it all and streaming our demise live on
 the Internet. The corpses of The Formerly Great & Mighty still 
 litter the modern landscape: Turkey, Mongolia, Greece, Peru, 
 Egypt, etc. Each a former World Power, now just another stinky, 
 poverty-ridden dirt-hole. But of course it can't happen here. 
 No way.

 We are behaving in a dangerously irrational way. Worse, rather
 than deal with our problems, we've decided it's cheaper and
 easier to just bullshit ourselves into believing Everything 
 Is Wonderful. 

 Problem             Rational Response   Our Response
 -------             -----------------   ------------
 Huge National Debt  reduce it	         create bloated new gov't
                                         bureaucracies, start many
                                         pointless new military 
                                         adventures, create vast
                                         new entitlement programs

 Huge Personal Debt   save               Max Out every card you can
                                         get your hands on...buy a
                                         new car...buy a house...
                                         buy several of each

 Weak Currency        strengthen it      print up even more money
                                         further eroding its value

 Huge Unemployment    retrain/reeducate  tell them to move to
                      the out-of-work    China - lots of work
                                         there 

 Reduced Gov't Tax    increase taxes,	 give everybody tax refunds 
 Revenues             cut budgets, etc.  and print up more money to
                                         cover the difference

 Pension Crisis       insist companies   rewrite the laws to allow
                      live up to their   companies to weasel out of
                      committments       their committments and
                                         screw-over their employees

 Loss of production   rebuild & promote  screw it - buy everything  
 capability           production infra-  from China
                      structure   

 It's a little obvious what's going on here, isn't it? The Baby Boom
 Generation, on the brink of retirement, are cashing-out America. 
 They've gone Welfare Queen. They're cleaning off the shelves and 
 telling the cashier to just put it all on Junior's tab. When the 
 Repo Man comes around to collect his toys back, he's going to find 
 an empty house - Junior don't live there and the real Deadbeat done 
 flew the Coop. On the kitchen table will be a small note: "Retired. 
 Send the bills to my kids."

 I wonder how long it will take the Kiddies to figure out they're 
 getting screwed by Ma and Pa? Forget about Democrat v. Republican,
 Conservative v. Liberal - it's Baby Boomers v. Everybody Else. 
 They want it ALL, baby.

 ANOTHER UNSETTLING ENCOUNTER...

 I recently had yet another unsettling encounter. As you may recall,
 the first involved a group of extremely polite and kindly people
 whose company I genuinely enjoyed. They confided to me that they 
 had no objection to the cops blowing away anybody who oppossed 
 President Yellowbelly's stinky TWAT. Good Germans don't come much
 gooder - or cleaner or Whiter, for that matter. 

 This new encounter was with the other side - an opponent of 'Ol
 Yeller's TWAT. I must say, it was far more depressing than the
 first. If this guy is really representative of the opposition
 you can kiss your Constitutional ass goodbye. 

 He's got an advanced degree, he teaches for a living and his 
 wife, like his car, is an 'import'. Born a Jew, after a brief 
 fling with the God Squad in his youth, he's lapsed into a benign
 state of atheisism. Not a 'committed atheist' - just someone who 
 finds the whole subject irrelevant to his life. He is aghast at 
 what has become of Israel, his former Shining Dream, and now 
 wouldn't dream of contributing a cent to its upkeep. At least
 until Sharon and the Likhud crowd are shown the door. He listens 
 to NPR religiously and will only watch PBS. Maybe he'll sneak a 
 peek at the cable channels occasionally, but never the Networks. 
 He has a large collection of books, mostly relating to his 
 academic interests, and is an avid reader. His taste in music 
 is eclectic, imaginative and unconventional. 

 Like many of his breed he still believes it's Business As Usual.
 He casually brushs off our unelected President as 'just one of
 those things' despite it's uniqueness in our history. He isn't
 too concerned about the Constitution and Bill of Rights being
 in a state of suspension. It bothers him but he ain't losing
 any sleep over it. Generally he isn't so much opposed to Yeller's
 TWAT as he is annoyed by it. It's just so...stupid. He finds its 
 inherent religiosity offensive to his intellectual senses. He
 doesn't see it as a threat to his way of life. Sure, he marches
 against it, but he'd never dream of actively opposing it. The
 notion that it's part of a fascist take-over of America would
 be amusing to him. He would find it incomprehensible that such
 a thing could ever occur here. Simply impossible and unworthy
 of further thought. Give it a few years and everything will be
 back to normal.

 His domestic and foreign policy views come directly off of NPR.
 He unquestioningly believes whatever they say and accepts it 
 as Gospel Truth. He sees President Yellowbelly as not so much
 Evil as misguided. A poorly-educated, intrinsically dishonest
 buffoon forever playing to the cameras. He's certain Yellowbelly
 knows more about 9/11 than he's letting on but feels his lack
 of action was simply because he was too ignorant to recognize
 the significance of the intelligence he was given. Not part of
 a deliberate and preconceived plan. He accepts that Osama bin 
 Laden and Al Qaida do exist and are behind all this terrorism
 stuff. He's no longer waiting for the proof that General Powell
 promised two years ago and still hasn't delivered. However 
 sympathetic he may feel towards the Iraqi people, he still 
 feels there was no harm done in riding the world of Saddam 
 Hussein. He just disapproves of the methods employed and the
 general botching of things afterward. Technical details. You
 get the impression he'll be saying much the same after Iran
 is invaded, and Syria, and...whatever. 

 He's looking forward to the 2004 elections and has still not
 decided whether to go for Dean or Kuchinic. He believes that
 if a Democrat/Liberal of some sort does get elected, this 
 whole mess will just magically go away. He beleives that
 deeply. If something 'unusual' were to occur during the
 election campaign resulting in an indefinite continuation 
 of Yellowbelly's Presidency, I'm not sure how he'd react.
 He'd WANT to believe it was all just accidental, but I'm not
 too sure he could convince himself of it. We'll see.

......................................................................

 "Oh, you're one of the sodomites. You should only get AIDS and 
  die you pig. How's that? Why don't you see if you can sue me, 
  you pig. You've got nothing better than to put me down, you 
  piece of garbage. You have got nothing to do today, go eat a 
  sausage and choke on it."

                           Mike Savage
                    Screaming Talk-Radio Nazi
                        & Former TV Host
                   responding to a Gay caller
                    just before he got fired 
......................................................................
 
                         MYSTERY SOLVED

 About once a year on my travels I encounter someone who takes an
 instant dislike to me. Right from the second I walk in the door.
 Without even knowing my name, they become immediately hostile and 
 rude. It's both women and men. Skin color is also irrelevant - 
 happens with Black folks as well White/Asian/Whatever. I'm less 
 certain about sexual-orientation. Lesbians automatically hate 
 guys just on general principles, so you're never quite sure if
 it's actually you or just your gonads that bother them. The 
 people I'm talking about go for the juggler right off the bat. 
 This isn't a simple matter of a common, ordinary jerk getting 
 their rocks off or some strung-out workaholic. This is an instant, 
 cold-blooded enemy. It's all I can do just to get the job done 
 and get outta there as quickly as possible before being forced 
 into a nasty confrontation. 

 For the longest time, these occurances had me deeply puzzled. 
 What was it - my face? Do they somehow find me extraordinarily 
 repulsive? Not much of anybody else seems to. Do I remind them 
 of someone they deeply hate? Hey, I'm just little 'ol me. I 
 ain't no Booger Man. Am I giving off some weird pheremone that 
 triggers hatred in certain individuals? How come hardly anyone 
 else is affected? What the frik'n hell is it? 

 Quite by accident one fine day, I found out. This one little, 
 mousey dude at a bank - the guy I answered to - tipped me off. 
 We go through the usual song and dance of where everything is 
 and basic introductions to people I'll be working with. He 
 seemed a tad chilly personality-wise, but it was banking - an 
 industry renowned for its bland inhumaneness. I wander off to 
 my cube to settle in. Not five minutes later he's standing 
 there saying, "The manager would like to speak with you." I 
 didn't like the looks of that smug and smarmy smile on the 
 little rodent's face. It definetely wasn't friendly. I knock 
 on the manager's door. He says, "Carl smells tobacco on you. 
 I'm sorry but we won't be needing your services afterall. 
 Please leave the premises or I will phone security." I was 
 floored. Even for a bank manager, her behavior was extraordinary. 
 Nothing even vaguely like that had ever happened to me before 
 in my entire bizarre life.

 So THAT'S it! Carl was a Tobacco Nazi! Then it clicked - all 
 those other weirdos with instant-hate-ons were NON-SMOKERS! 
 Yikes! I'll bet they were Tobacco Nazis too. Unlike Carl, they
 lacked the clout to do anything about it aside from act like
 obnoxious jerks.

 Tobacco Nazis are mentally ill. I don't say that to be mean. 
 I say it simply as a fact. They obviously got a screw loose.
 While I'm not a psychiatrist or a psychologist, I have spent 
 a number of years counseling schizophrenics and working closely 
 with the medical pros who deal with such people. I know Nuts 
 when I see Nuts. Some of my best friends are certified Space 
 Cadets. This aversion to people who smoke has as little to do 
 with the person involved as it does with the health risks of 
 smoking. It's the SMELL that gets them. 

 A prime symptom of mental illness, aside from hearing-voices, 
 is hyper-sensitivity. It's as common amongst Space Cadets as 
 fleas are on a dog. Some people have ultra-sensitive eyes and 
 can't even go outside on a rainy, cloudy day without sunglasses. 
 Others have an extraordinary sensitive skin and find even a
 simple handshake unbareably painful. Still others had super-
 sensitive hearing and are plagued by constant distractions 
 from sounds that are imperceptible or barely perceptable to 
 other people. And, though it wasn't very common, there were 
 a few others whose sense of smell would rival a bloodhound's. 
 They literally could smell people coming. 

 The Tobacco Nazis fit that last one to a tee. But since,
 unlike serious psychotics, they retain enough social skills
 to make a living, you'd have to put them down as Borderline.
 That's the category that takes in the vast wash of crazies.
 If you ever read the Diagnostic Statistical Manual that
 Shrinks use to make their diagnosis from (U Dub Bookstore
 always has some) you'll quickly discover that they think
 we're ALL at least Borderline nutcases. Though very few of 
 the 'illnesses' listed actually have physically measureable 
 properties associated with them. You're sick if they say
 your sick. Simple as that. Which brings up the interesting 
 thought - is being crazy actually normal?
 
 One of the primary purposes of the anti-psychotic drugs pschos
 take is to deaden this overbearing sensory input. Often, at 
 least in the past, it was so effective many could no longer 
 tell if it was hot or cold outside, if the shower water was 
 scalding or tepid. Someone had to set up the shower for them 
 and some were driven to wearing many layers of clothes to 
 prevent catching a cold if it was colder out than they 
 realized. On summer days they sweated like pigs and stunk
 the place out. Their sense of smell was just as dead as the
 other senses. It truely embarassed them. They were just
 trying to keep from getting sick.

 I think what really impresses me is the irrational depth of 
 the Tobacco Nazis instanteous hatred of smokers. It is truely 
 bizarre. I mean it goes far beyond just not wanting you to 
 smoke. They don't give a damn about the health effects involved, 
 any more than they care what kind of person you are, how smart 
 you are, how much of an asset to a company you might be. There 
 is nothing personal about their hatred. Nonetheless, they want 
 to DESTROY you - take your job away from you, humilitate you, 
 and stomp you into the ground. 

 It just ain't normal to hate a total stranger on such slim 
 evidence. Normal people don't react like that in the absence 
 of an actual cause - smoke. I can understand if some jackass  
 is smoking in a confined space, but not barely perceptible 
 odors nobody else can smell. That's downright crazy. 

 Being a smoker, I tend not to take the anti-smoking bullshit 
 very seriously. Virtually all the public-service ads are lies 
 and complete bunkum. And singularly ineffective, I might add,
 for those very reasons. While smoking may not be the best thing 
 in the world for you, just living in America is far more
 dangerous. And the cancer it produces is every bit as painful 
 as anything you might get from tobacco.

 Check out the Centers for Disease Control website for "Body 
 Burden" sometime. Between the decades of toxic chemicals/
 hormones/antibiotics you've been ingesting from supermarket 
 food and the tons of carcinagenic pollutants from cars you've 
 inhaled daily - you're screwed Boobee. Don't matter how carefully 
 you eat or how much you exercise. Since the people who create 
 all that crap also happen to be the Corporatoids who pay for 
 politicians elections, they are allowed to Keep On Truck'n.
 Getting elected over your dead body doesn't bother them in the
 least. They're too stoopid to realize, it's also over their
 own dead body.

.........................................................................

 "Yes, it is true that I have sacrificed whatever nominal dignity
  I possessed, in order to suck up to a guy who is too dumb to 
  play solitare unless Karl Rove puts post-it notes on all the
  face cards."

                          Dennis Miller
                         Amusing Fellow
                         on his new boss, 
                      President Yellowbelly
..........................................................................

                        'OL YELLER'S TWAT
                 (aka The War Against Terrorism)

 When Baghdad fell, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police escourted the
 Iraqi Ambassador - Mustafa Mamdouh - out of his embassy in Canada's
 capital, Ottawa. Out with the old, in with the new. When the new 
 Iraqi Ambassador was recently ushered into the embassy, guess who 
 it was. Yep - Mustafa Mamdouh. In with the old, out with the new. 
 It's the New American Way.

 Everyone seemed very excited this week at the CIA Director taking
 the rap for that President Yellowbelly's lie about Saddam getting
 some African uranium so he could finish his nukes. Since there 
 were absolutely no consequences for admitting to such an obvious
 act of fraud, why's everybody getting excited? If Tenet had been
 forced to resign or been charged with criminal dereliction of
 duty, that would be different. But nothing happened and nothing
 will happen. End of story. They lied and got caught. So what?
 The only significant thing it does confirm is: the Buck no longer
 Stops at the Oval Office. Just like President Bubba before him,
 Yellowbelly will do just about anything to weasel his way out 
 of responsibility for his actions.

 After getting off to a grand start at trashing America; after having
 fanned the smoldering embers of Israel/Palestine into a raging fire;
 after launching a medieval Holy War against the Mooslems in the Middle
 East; after lying his ass off to mug Iraq and being well on his way 
 to botching the occupation of that country; after having convinced 
 North Korea that they better hang onto their nukes cuz that's the
 only thing keeping us from invading them; what's left for America's 
 Favorite Fuckup Artist to make a mess of? I know - Africa! 

 With the Africans audibly groaning at the prospect, President George 
 W. Yellowbelly, who's legally fried more Black men than any White bigot 
 in American history, decided to fly over to the Dark Continent and have 
 a little mano-y-mano talk with them Upitty Nigras. Why can't all Nigras 
 be nice like General Shoeshine and Little Missy Rice instead of sassy
 like that nasty Nelson Mandela and pushy like that ugly Mr. Mugabe? 
 Must be their hot-blood or the effects of eating all that fried chicken
 and watermelon. They wouldn't get away with that kind of shit in 
 Yellowbelly's Texas. No sirreeee Bob! He'd have their asses on Death
 Row and swing'n from a noose in no time flat.

 With our occupation of Afghanistan rapidly deteriorating and with 
 our body-bags in Iraq rapidly filling as we lose our grip there, what
 does Yeller do? He wants to start another occupation. This time he
 wants to grab Liberia - the nation recently voted by the International
 Brotherhood of Arms Dealers as "Most Valued Customer of 2003". And we
 ain't even got to the Christmas Rush yet. Doh! Can Yellowbelly pick 
 'em or what? 

 Last year he couldn't even spell 'Africa' and this year he thinks
 he's the King of Africa. He didn't waste any time assuming the White
 Man's Burden and tell'n them Nigras how to run things over there:
 You! Hit the road! You! Do this! Hey Boy! Shine my shoes.

 Oh well. It'll give him something to do while he carefully nurses
 along his Iran invasion plans for the 2004 election campaign. And
 it should drum up a little extra business for the gravediggers in
 the military sections of our cemeteries as more body-bags flow
 homeward. Plenty more where those suckers came from. Bring 'em on!

 Speaking of Iraq...

 Yellowbelly and his favorite Lap Boy, General Tommy "The Toady" 
 Franks, changed their minds. Considering the lack of bulk, it 
 probably only took a couple seconds. They aren't gonna send the 
 Iraqi Freedom Fighters more targets to shoot at afterall. Troop 
 levels will remain where they are - understaffed, overworked and 
 with morale plunging like a rock. I'm sure it's just a cooincidence 
 that pregnancy rates amongst the lady troops has shot through the 
 roof recently. Pimp Daddy Franks' Ho's is spread'n 'em wide for 
 a free trip home. First Class Army Nookie for all comers! I wonder 
 if they're gonna name the boys 'Saddam' as a sign of their 
 appreciation?  Naming them 'Yellowbelly' would be kinda cruel.

 Pardon me if I really don't give much of a damn about troop morale. 
 These are the same assholes who cluster-bombed villages full of kids, 
 often joined the looters they were supposed to be stopping, murdered 
 journalists in cold blood and opened fire on 8-year olds in protest 
 marches. And of course, they STILL haven't explained why they didn't
 lift a finger in our defense during 9/11. Sympathize with them?
 Fuck them! Bleed Baby Bleed! 

 A lot of people haven't yet quite understood the situation we've
 created there. We've plunged Iraq into chaos deliberately. It's 
 no accident nor is it mere incompetent administration that their 
 cities have no electricity and their water is diseased. We WANT 
 it that way. They are being punished for being Uppity. We most
 certainly possess both the technology and wealth to instanteously 
 restore Iraq's basic infrastructure if we wanted to. We just don't 
 want to. If it were American cities that had suffered this severe 
 infrastructure damage, it would have been repaired ages ago or 
 heads would have rolled by now. But that's the nature of our game. 
 We want to hurt them and we want all the rest of the Mooslems to 
 see what we're gonna do to them if they step outta line. We just 
   haven't got enough balls to come right out and say so.

.........................................................................

                     -  MONDO VATICANO -

 There are few things the Vatican Spinmeisters like doing more than
 playing fast and loose with numbers. Everytime JP-2 goes to the
 bathroom, MILLIONS of adoring fans cheer him on. They make the
 numbers up and, in fact, they are lies. It's okay for them to lie
 like that but if you do it, you'll go to Hell and fry for it. They
 are good and holy; you, on the other hand, are a sinful bastard.
 Their motto is: Do As I Say, Not As I Do. Whatever it lacks in
 integrity it more than makes for in expediency.

 One of their favorite numbers to push is that the Catholic Church
 is the largest in the world. It's not really as anyone who's ever
 been to a Sunday Mass can attest - the place is usually over half
 empty. Muslims are MUCH more consciencious about practicing their
 religion. 

 In fact what the Vatican counts as 'Catholic' are those who
 have been baptised, not those who are practicing Catholics. Few 
 Catholics actually choose to be baptised. It's something parents 
 do to their children when they are only a few weeks old. Only a 
 small percentage of baptised Catholics become practicing Catholics. 
 Many come and go over the course of a lifetime. The number is less
 a reflection of religious belief than it is of organizational
 effectiveness.

 A more honest figure would be the number of Catholics who register
 with a parish. People generally only do so when there's something
 practical to be gained: school for their children, a grave plot 
 for their dead, ecclesiastical aspirations for either them or 
 their kids, etc. Many don't bother so the number would be slightly
 understated. No matter. It's not available. Big secret. In fact,
 it would be a bit embarassing next to the 'baptised' number.

 But there are people who strive for honest numbers. They have no
 connection to the Vatican and therefore no vested interest. One 
 of the better websites for that sort of thing on the Net is 
 Adherents. They cover ALL religions around the world.

 According to them...

 The top 10 nations in term of baptised Catholics are:
 Brazil (135 million),         France    (48 million),
 Mexico (86 million),          Spain     (37 million), 
 USA    (60 million),          Poland    (37 million), 
 Philipines (60 million),      Columbia  (32 million), 
 Italy  (55 million),          Argentina (32 million) and 
                               Germany   (30 million). 

 In terms of what percentage of the population are baptised
 Catholics a totally different crowd is involved. The top ten 
 there are: 
 Vatican City (100%),               Cape Verde (96%), 
 San Marino (99.8%),                Poland (95%), 
 St.Pierre & Miquelon (99.3),       Mexico (95%),
 Wallis & Fortuna Islands (99%),    Ireland (95%) 
 Italy (97%),                       Guadeloupe (95%). 
 America isn't even in the top 20.

 The top ten states with baptised Catholics are: New York
 (7.3 million), California (7.1 million), Pennsylvania (3.7
 million), Illinois (3.6 million), Texas (3.6 million),
 New Jersey (3.2 million), Massachusetts (3 million), 
 Michigan (2.3 million), Ohio (2.1 million) and Florida
 (1.6 million). Virtually all east-coast/mid-west states.

 In terms of percentage of the population, it's very similar:
 Rhode Island (63%), Massachusetts (49%), Conneticut (42%),
 New Jersey (41%), New York (40%), Louisiana (32%), Wisconsin
 (32%), Pennsylvania (31%) and New Mexico (31%).

 If you wanted to move to a county with lots of Catholics, 
 the best places to go would all be in the southwest - Texas 
 and New Mexico account for virtually all the top 20 counties. 
 Only a couple counties in the east managed to crack the top 
 20. It is a good bet all these parishes would be heavily 
 Latino/Hispanic. 

 One of the more surprising numbers Aspirations had, was that
 involving atheists. Israel, the Jewish Homeland, is one of
 the most atheistic countries in the world weighing in with
 25% of its population considering themselves non-Believers.
 Given that 20% of its population is Palestinian and likely
 Muslims, that leaves only about half of Israel as practicing
 Jews. Some Jewish Homeland eh. Under those terms, Massachusetts
 has grounds to declare itself the Catholic Homeland.
 
                               + 

 Catholic Supreme Court Justices "Fat Tony" Scalia and Clarence 
 "Coke Can" Thomas set their first grateful criminal free this 
 week - Fr. George Rucker. The old pervert was recently arraigned 
 in California for his sexual molestation of girls in his parishes 
 over a 30 year period. Thanks to Tony and Clarence, there will be 
 no Justice for his victims. They cast the deciding votes that 
 disallowed extending the statute of limitations in clergy abuse 
 cases. Thanks to them, the criminal is allowed to get away with 
 his many crimes. Maybe somebody ought to set "Fat Tony" and "Coke 
 Can" down and explain to them that their job is to put criminals 
 away, not set them free. They don't seem to be intellectually 
 up for their job or morally up for their responsibility.

 If there is to be no justice from the Vatican's flunkies or from
 our secular courts, then people will be forced to take justice 
 into their own hands. They are being given little other choice
 than Vigilante Justice. Our bishops and judges are deliberately 
 manufacturing a tragedy-in-the-making. They don't seem to 
 realize that they are likely to be the targets.
 
                                  + 

 The Philipino end of the Church is a joke at the best of times. 
 It's contribution to Catholic spirituality over the centuries 
 has been close to zilch. Their brand of Catholicism is so 
 profoundly superstitious it borders on being pagan and not 
 even Christian let alone Catholic. 

 The Cosa Nostra operation Cardinal Sin has been running in 
 recent years is even less Catholic in nature. It's more like 
 a Mob operation. It is corrupt, perverse, and pornographic in 
 ways even the American Church can't conceive. A throw-back
 to the medieval days when Princes of the Church were the 
 political/secular power-brokers in their societies. The Old
 Pollock's predecessors in Poland actually used to become the
 interim 'royalty' in the interval between the death of a king
 or queen and the choosing of a successor.

 Cardinal Sin's bishops have been allowed to keep mistresses 
 on the side, many of his priests totally ignore their vow of
 celibacy and he's up to his neck in perverts. Worse even than
 here. Scandals have become a daily matter. Constant headlines.

 His reaction? Dog and Pony shows. He doesn't even try to deal
 with the situation. He waves his hands around grandly acting
 like he's taking care of things when in fact all he's doing is
 creating breezes. He's old, incompetent and washed up. He should
 have shuffled off to an Old Folks home ages ago. Instead, he's
 only now in the process of choosing a successor. Two of the
 leading canidates are in the midst of scandals involving their
 former mistresses.

 As arrogant pissheads go, his bishops are on a par with ours.
 This week they decided all on their own that they are not
 responsible for their Pervert Priests. Simple as that. No
 point in victims crying for help. The Philipino bishops 
 got their fingers in their ears and can't hear. They could
 not possibly care less about the victims.

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