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Mikey
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Posted: Tue Sep 27th, 2005 03:02 pm |
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Motorcycle hearse gives people a unique farewell
By Greg Stanmar
gregstanmar@insightbb.com
STREATOR -- The stares Gary Simko gets riding his motorcycle from his Boys Street home in Streator to a funeral home multiply after he's picked up his passenger and leads a line of black limousines and other vehicles to a cemetery.
Simko, 54, a retired LaSalle County sheriff's detective sergeant, is now in the business of giving ardent motorcycle fans an appropriate farewell with a hearse coupled to his three-wheel motorcycle. "When a Cadillac just won't do," advertises Simko on his business card for Midwest Iron Horse Funeral Coach Service.
"I have seen several different services of firemen on back of fire trucks, semi-tractor trailer drivers on the back of flatbeds, so I just wanted something that pertained to motorcycle riders," he said. He was not alone in his idea and Tombstone Hearse Co. out of Pennsylvania makes a unit that can be coupled to motorcycles.
Simko knows of a half-dozen similar ventures in the U.S., with the closest in Detroit. The hearse he selected was modeled after the horse-drawn one that carried Jesse James to his Missouri cemetery in 1882. The life-long cop sees no irony in using a hearse modeled after that used by one of the country's most notorious 19th Century criminals.
"No, nothing ironic," he said. "It's just the way it was." As word spreads of his service, Simko is finding customers throughout the Midwest, including a recent one in Streator. Usually the spouse of the deceased contacts Simko for the beloved's last ride. As a motorcycle enthusiast, Simko knows the love one develops for the avocation.
"We do the same thing a traditional service would do: take them from the funeral home to the church and then to the cemetery," said Simko, whose love of motorcycles began in 1973 while working with a Florida police department.
His dress is a tuxedo shirt, blue jeans, black leather vest and highly-shined boots with a single spur. The spur is an old cavalry tradition for taking deceased horse soldiers to the cemetery.
He declined to estimate how much a funeral home adds on for the unique twist, though he said the cost of his services increase in 50-mile increments from Streator.
He also declined to give the cost of his new Harley-Davidson and the hearse attachment. Customers are typically middle-age or older motorcycle enthusiasts. But in one case the hearse was picked by parents of a child who enjoyed the sport.
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zippo
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Posted: Mon Sep 26th, 2005 09:09 pm |
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| WOOULD YOU BELIEVE ... MISSED IT BY THAT MUCH ........CHIEF I DEMAND THE CONE OF SILENCE
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Posted: Mon Sep 26th, 2005 07:33 pm |
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Actor Don Adams dead at 82
Played secret agent Maxwell Smart in ‘Get Smart’
The Associated Press
Updated: 3:00 p.m. ET Sept. 26, 2005
LOS ANGELES - Don Adams, the wry-voiced comedian who starred as the fumbling secret agent Maxwell Smart in the 1960s television spoof of James Bond movies, “Get Smart,” has died. He was 82.
Adams died of a lung infection late Sunday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, his friend and former agent Bruce Tufeld said Monday, adding the actor broke his hip a year ago and had been in ill health since.
As the inept Agent 86 of the super-secret federal agency C.O.N.T.R.O.L., Adams captured TV viewers with his antics in combatting the evil agents of C.H.A.O.S. When his explanations failed to convince the villains or his boss, he tried another tack: “Would you believe ... ?” It became a national catchphrase.
Smart was also prone to spilling things on the desk or person of his boss—the chief (actor Edward Platt). Smart’s apologetic “Sorry about that, chief” also entered the American lexicon. The spy gadgets, which aped those of the Bond movies, were a popular feature, especially the pre-cell-phone telephone in a shoe.
Smart’s beautiful partner, Agent 99, played by Barbara Felden, was as brainy as he was dense, and a plot romance led to marriage and the birth of twins later in the series.
Adams, who had been under contract to NBC, was lukewarm about doing a spy spoof. When he learned that Mel Brooks and Buck Henry had written the pilot script, he accepted immediately. “Get Smart” debuted on NBC in September 1965 and scored No. 12 among the season’s most-watched series and No. 22 in its second season.
“Get Smart” twice won the Emmy for best comedy series with three Emmys for Adams as comedy actor.
Survivor of Guadalcanal, voice of Inspector Gadget
CBS picked up the show but the ratings fell off as the jokes seemed repetitive, and it was canceled after four seasons. The show lived on in syndication and a cartoon series. In 1995 Fox network revived the series with Smart as chief and 99 as a congresswoman. It lasted seven episodes.
Adams never had another showcase to display his comic talent.
“It was a special show that became a cult classic of sorts, and I made a lot of money for it,” he remarked of “Get Smart” in a 1995 interview. “But it also hindered me career-wise because I was typed. The character was so strong, particularly because of that distinctive voice, that nobody could picture me in any other type of role.”
He was born Donald James Yarmy in New York City on April 13, 1926, Tufeld said, although some sources say 1923 or 1927. The actor’s father was a Hungarian Jew who ran a few small restaurants in the Bronx.
In a 1959 interview Adams said he never cared about being funny as a kid: “Sometimes I wonder how I got into comedy at all. I did movie star impressions as a kid in high school. Somehow they just got out of hand.”
In 1941, he dropped out of school to join the Marines, lying about his age. In Guadalcanal he survived the deadly blackwater fever and was returned to the States to become a drill instructor, acquiring the clipped delivery that served him well as a comedian.
After the war he worked in New York as a commercial artist by day, doing standup comedy in clubs at night, taking the surname of his first wife, Adelaide Adams. His following grew, and soon he was appearing on the Ed Sullivan and late night TV shows. Bill Dana, who had helped him develop comedy routines, cast him as his sidekick on Dana’s Jose Jiminez show. That led to the NBC contract and “Get Smart.”
Adams, who married and divorced three times and had seven children, served as the voice for the popular cartoon series, “Inspector Gadget.” In 1980, he appeared as Maxwell Smart in a feature movie, “The Nude Bomb,” about a madman whose bomb destroyed people’s clothing.
Tufeld said funeral arrangements were incomplete.
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marc
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Posted: Sun Sep 25th, 2005 06:39 pm |
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Pakistan Says Bin Laden Is Isolated
By SADAQAT JAN, Associated Press Writer
Osama bin Laden is hiding out with a small core of mainly Arab supporters, and the al-Qaida leader now only sends messages by courier because his communications network has been destroyed, senior Pakistani military and intelligence officials said Sunday.
There have been no fresh clues to bin Laden's whereabouts, but he generally is believed to be in the border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
"In our opinion, the reports on the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden are more speculative stories rather than based on accurate intelligence," said Maj. Gen. Shaukat Sultan, chief spokesman for Pakistan's army.
Pakistan has deployed some 80,000 troops to its rugged border regions running along Afghanistan, fighting intense battles with al-Qaida-linked militants.
CBS' "60 Minutes" will report Sunday that Pakistani officials believe bin Laden may be hiding in Afghanistan, where he is protected by a very small number of people to keep a low profile.
A Pakistani intelligence official in the northwestern city of Peshawar, near the Afghan border, said bin Laden probably is accompanied by "dozens" of mainly Arab supporters. He spoke on condition of anonymity, citing the secretive nature of his job.
Security officials in Pakistan — Washington's front-line Muslim ally in the war on terrorism — also believe bin Laden's communications network has been destroyed.
"For a very long time there are no intercepts about Osama bin Laden giving instructions to his regional commanders, either through radio, telephone, satellite phone or the Internet," a senior security official said on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the subject.
"If he is unable to give orders physically or otherwise, it clearly indicates that his communication has been severed."
In the past, bin Laden would be surrounded by up to 500 people, the Peshawar-based intelligence official said, adding that his communications network has been reduced to human couriers, where a message "changes several hands" between its point of origin and final destination.
"This is a very slow and exposed way of communicating," the official said.
Security forces seized a letter from bin Laden during a raid in Rawalpindi in 2003 in which al-Qaida's then-No. 3 leader Khalid Shaikh Mohammed — a suspected planner of the Sept. 11 attacks — was captured. Mohammed is believed to have received the letter via the courier network, the official said.
Pakistani officials say more than 700 al-Qaida suspects, including senior figures like Mohammed, have been arrested.
Officials also say that information gleaned from al-Qaida has led to the arrests of militants outside Pakistan and helped prevent terrorist attacks abroad.
"The arrest of Naeem Noor Khan led to the arrest of a big gang ... ahead of the British elections," Sultan said, claiming that the people arrested in Britain planned to attack Heathrow Airport.
Last year, intelligence agents arrested Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan, 25, an alleged Pakistani computer expert for al-Qaida. A reported tip-off from Khan led to the arrest of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian on the FBI's most-wanted list for his alleged role in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in East Africa that killed more than 200 people.
There were media reports that Mohammed Sidique Khan — one of the suspected bombers in the deadly July 7 explosions in London — may have had ties with members of an alleged terrorist cell that matched information from Noor Khan's computer.
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marc
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Posted: Sat Sep 24th, 2005 01:45 pm |
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Randy in Pensacola wrote: Ya gotta hand it to the pilot....I could have been alot worse...He done a great job landing it.... Ditto....Saw the tape.....
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Posted: Sat Sep 24th, 2005 01:10 pm |
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| Ya gotta hand it to the pilot....I could have been alot worse...He done a great job landing it....
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Posted: Sat Sep 24th, 2005 04:32 am |
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Anyone see this one the news Thursday night? I've got pictures of the nose landing gear afterwards at LAX. Came from some mechanics workin' in the same hanger.
I'll push 'em up to the server Saturday and post 'em...
JetBlue plane lands safely at LAX area after wheel problem
Associated Press
Long Beach Press Telegram
LOS ANGELES — A JetBlue airliner with faulty landing gear touched down safely Wednesday evening at Los Angeles International Airport after circling the region for three hours with its front wheels turned sideways and unable to retract into the plane.
As passengers inside the plane watched the drama unfold on television sets in the cabin, the pilot landed using the back wheels first and then easing onto the front tires. The front wheels smoked, popped and sparked as the plane rolled to a stop on an auxiliary runway set apart from the main terminals. No one was hurt.
"We all cheered, I was bawling, I cried so much, said Christine Lund, 25, who was traveling with her cat.
Zachary Mascoon said it was "surreal" to watch the emergency unfold on a television inside the plane. At one point, he said, he tried to call his family, but his cell phone call wouldn't go through.
"I wanted to call my dad to tell him I'm alive so far," the 27-year-old musician said.
Mascoon praised the flight crew's professionalism, adding that the emergency was handled with calm.
Emergency crews from across the area, which had massed near the runway, helped the 140 passengers and six crew members. Within minutes, the plane's door was opened and passengers with their carry-on luggage walked down a stairway onto the tarmac.
Some passengers shook hands with emergency workers, talked on their cell phones and waved to cameras. One firefighter carrying a boy across the tarmac put his helmet on the child's head. Family members called the airport, asking where they can meet up with passengers.
No injuries were immediately reported, authorities said.
"It was a very, very smooth landing. The pilot did an outstanding job," fire Battalion Chief Lou Roupoli said moments after the plane touched down. "There was a big hallelujah and a lot of clapping on that aircraft. … If you're going to land in a bad situation, this is where you want to be."
JetBlue flight 292 left Bob Hope Airport in Burbank at 3:17 p.m. for New York's JFK airport, said JetBlue spokesman Bryan Baldwin.
The Airbus A320 first circled the Long Beach Airport, about 30 miles south of Burbank, and then was cleared to land at Los Angeles International Airport. It stayed in flight to burn off fuel before landing, said Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Donn Walker.
As the plane landed in Los Angeles, spectators gathered on buildings and stood on parked cars to see first-hand an ordeal that was broadcast on local and national television that showed the nose wheel turned perpendicular.
The runway where the plane landed will be closed indefinitely, but there will be no flight delays or cancellations, said LAX spokeswoman Nancy Castles.
The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board have launched an investigation, Walker said.
JetBlue, based in Forest Hills, N.Y., is a five-year-old low-fare airline with 286 flights a day and destinations in 13 states and the Caribbean. It operates a fleet of 81 A320s.
http://www2.presstelegram.com/news/ci_3049744
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Dave
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Posted: Fri Sep 23rd, 2005 08:46 pm |
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Here's a switch...LOL
Hundreds Of Mexicans Rush Home
Mexican families fleeing Texas in the face of Hurricane Rita have pulled into the border city of Nuevo Laredo in hundreds of SUVs and pickup trucks.
Some carried pets, refrigerators and TVs as they moved in with relatives south of the Rio Grande.
But after the long, hot drive from Galveston, South Padre Island and Corpus Christi, their exodus was delayed at the threshold to their own homeland. Each vehicle had to have a temporary import permit from the Mexican government, which meant a wait of about an hour on the average.
Thousands of Mexicans live and work in Texas but still have family -- even second homes -- in Mexico. With Rita bearing down on the Gulf Coast, many felt it time to go back, at least for a week or so.
The influx of Mexicans fleeing the Texas Gulf Coast was expected to increase Friday. That's prompting Mexican officials to add more customs agents and personnel at the government import permit office on the border.
The Mexican government also announced it's shifting its Houston consulate from a high-risk neighborhood to a temporary office at the Hilton Hotel in downtown Houston. It's also adding staffing at consulates in San Antonio, Austin and Dallas.
Nuevo Leon state Gov. Natividad Gonzalez had written to Texas Gov. Rick Perry, offering medical and rescue crews to Texas. Gonzalez also says Nuevo Leon -- which includes the city of Monterrey -- is prepared to set up shelters near the U.S.-Mexico border if needed.
http://www.nbc4.tv/news/4940452/detail.html
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Posted: Fri Sep 23rd, 2005 04:09 pm |
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Damn.....
Rita Causes New Flooding in New Orleans
By MICHELLE ROBERTS and BRETT MARTEL, Associated Press Writers
Hurricane Rita's steady rains sent water pouring through breaches in a patched levee Friday, cascading into one of the city's lowest-lying neighborhoods in a devastating repeat of New Orleans' flooding nightmare.
"Our worst fears came true," said Maj. Barry Guidry of the Georgia National Guard.
"We have three significant breaches in the levee and the water is rising rapidly," he said. "At daybreak I found substantial breaks and they've grown larger."
Dozens of blocks in the Ninth Ward were under water as a waterfall at least 30 feet wide poured over and through a dike that had been used to patch breaks in the Industrial Canal levee. On the street that runs parallel to the canal, the water ran waist-deep and was rising fast. Guidry said water was rising about three inches a minute.
The impoverished neighborhood was one of the areas of the city hit hardest by Katrina's floodwaters and finally had been pumped dry before Hurricane Rita struck.
Throughout Friday morning, water began rising again onto buckled homes, piles of rubble and mud-caked cars that Katrina had covered with up to 20 feet of water.
Sally Forman, an aide to Mayor Ray Nagin, said officials knew the levees were compromised, but they believe that the Ninth Ward is cleared of residents.
"I wouldn't imagine there's one person down there," Forman said.
Mitch Frazier, a spokesman for the Army Corps of Engineers, said contractors were being brought in Friday morning to repair the new damage. The corps had earlier installed 60-foot sections of metal across some of the city's canals to protect against flooding and storm surges.
Forecasters say anywhere from 3 to 5 inches of rain could fall in New Orleans as Rita passes Friday and Saturday, dangerously close to the 6 inches of rain that Corps officials say the patched levees can withstand.
Another concern is the storm surge accompanying Rita, which could send water rising as much as 3 to 5 feet above high tide.
Already Friday morning, a steady 20 mph wind, with gusts to 35 mph, was blowing, along with steady rains.
Because of uncertain weather conditions from Hurricane Rita, the recovery of bodies was suspended but previous discoveries pushed the death toll from Hurricane Katrina to 841 in Louisiana, and at least 1,078 across the Gulf Coast.
As many as 500,000 people in southwestern Louisiana, many of them already displaced by Hurricane Katrina, were told to evacuate and many jammed roads north to escape.
In New Iberia, Glynn Stevenson, who swam out of his New Orleans house with belongings taped to his body, had just gotten settled into a trailer provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency when the call came for him to uproot again.
"It's nothing to get mad about," he said. "Just keep a cool attitude and help your brothers."
As for those who refuse to leave, Gov. Kathleen Blanco advised: "Perhaps they should write their Social Security numbers on their arms with indelible ink."
Rita was headed for a Texas landfall but the massive storm threatened southwestern Louisiana as well, with tropical storm-force winds expected by noon and hurricane-force winds of 74 mph or higher by early Saturday. Flash floods were possible as 10 to 15 inches of rain was forecast.
National Guard and medical units were put on standby. Helicopters were being positioned, and search-and-rescue boats from the state wildlife department were staged on high ground on the edge of Rita's projected path. Blanco said she also asked for 15,000 more federal troops.
Coast Guard Vice Adm. Thad Allen said three days worth of food, water and other supplies for 500,000 people are ready and waiting around Louisiana, if needed after Rita.
A mandatory evacuation order was in effect for homes on the eastern bank of the Mississippi, and police said people in the city's Algiers section on the other side of the river would be wise to get out, too. But thousands stayed put.
"I'm sticking it out," said Florida Richardson, who sat on her front porch in Algiers, holding her grandson on her lap. "This house is 85 years old. It's seen a lot of tornadoes and a lot of hurricanes. You can't run from the power of God."
A traffic jam of evacuees extended from Houston and other Texas cities well into Louisiana, with Interstate 10 congested across southern Louisiana.
Billy Landry, a marina manager in Cypremort Point, wasn't going to stay for Rita. He planned to haul himself and thousands of soft-shell crabs to safety.
"Since Katrina, everybody seems a little nervous. They don't want to get pulled from rooftops," he said.
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Posted: Fri Sep 23rd, 2005 03:13 pm |
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| I think my Ex had a shirt like that too, only about 5 sizes larger.......It was definitly her motto......If I would have shot her when I wanted to, I would have been out by now...LOL
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Posted: Fri Sep 23rd, 2005 03:07 pm |
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I hope you are right.......This is one time I would love to be proved wrong......(I dont say that much)
Dave wrote:
Randy, I have to disagree with ya on that one. The Catholic church has screwed itself up and I don't think that too many will really blame or even associate the Baptist, Protestant, Lutheran, etc. religions for the mis-deeds & perversions that have gone on within the Catholic Church.
I've gotta think that the other religions are still gonna have to make or break their own reputations based on their own actions. Now, if it were suddenly disclosed that one of these other religions pulled this sort of crap on the scale that the Catholic Church has, I'd have to assume that there would be some dire consequences for those religions. It could escalate to the point that all religions take a hit. But, I don't see it real soon...
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Posted: Fri Sep 23rd, 2005 02:14 pm |
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Randy, I have to disagree with ya on that one. The Catholic church has screwed itself up and I don't think that too many will really blame or even associate the Baptist, Protestant, Lutheran, etc. religions for the mis-deeds & perversions that have gone on within the Catholic Church.
I've gotta think that the other religions are still gonna have to make or break their own reputations based on their own actions. Now, if it were suddenly disclosed that one of these other religions pulled this sort of crap on the scale that the Catholic Church has, I'd have to assume that there would be some dire consequences for those religions. It could escalate to the point that all religions take a hit. But, I don't see it real soon...
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Posted: Fri Sep 23rd, 2005 12:34 pm |
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| The sad part is, that this will give all religions a bad name........JMHO
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Posted: Fri Sep 23rd, 2005 12:26 pm |
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Got this off another board...
This a disgrace!
NBC10.com
DA: Top Catholic Officials Covered Up Sex Abuse Of Minors
District Attorney Releases Scathing Report
POSTED: 12:33 pm EDT September 21, 2005
UPDATED: 9:14 pm EDT September 21, 2005
PHILADELPHIA -- Editor's Note: Article Contains Graphic Content
The leaders of the Philadelphia Archdiocese -- including two former Cardinals -- actively concealed sexual abuse by priests for decades, but no criminal charges can be brought against the church or its priests because of the constraints of state law, according to grand jury findings released Wednesday.
Video: Cardinal Responds | DA Explains Grand Jury Focus | Extent Of Sexual Abuse | DA Recommends Changes To Law | NBC 10 Looks At Both Sides
Lynne Abraham (L), Justin Rigali (R)
In response, Philadelphia's cardinal apologized, but said the archdiocese has obeyed the law.
Following the nation's longest-running grand jury probe into priest abuse, the scathing report documents assaults on children by more than 60 priests, and alleges that former Cardinals Anthony Bevilacqua and John Krol covered up the abuse.
"This is a story that demonstrates a sick pattern of sexual predation, sexual seduction and indecency, rape, sodomy, abortion," District Attorney Lynne Abraham said.
The grand jury produced a damning document, 417 pages long, alleging shocking cases of sexual abuse in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia involving 63 priests, though more than 100 more were investigated.
"I found (the report) to be incredibly biased and, in fact, anti-Catholic," diocese attorney William Sasso said. "There are numerous instances of this through the report."
Diocese attorneys said they had been allowed to review rough versions of the report, but had not been given the final report.
"To protect themselves from negative publicity or expensive lawsuits -- while keeping abusive priests active -- the cardinals and their aides hid the priests' crimes from parishioners, police and the general public," the report said.
"What we're talking about is child rape, children as young as 10 or 11 years of age, both boys and girls were forcefully, illegally penetrated by grown clergymen," Abraham said.
"We repudiate everything of sexual abuse and for the future, as in the past, we renew our efforts to see that children will be protected," Cardinal Justin Rigali said at a news conference Wednesday after acknowledging the "pain and suffering of the victims of clergy sexual abuse" and apologizing to them.
Statute Of Limitations Prevents Prosecution
State laws, including legal time limits, prevented prosecutors from filing charges, the report said. The grand jury also explored the possibility of charges against the archdiocese, but said the organization can't be prosecuted because it is an unincorporated association rather than a corporation.
"Archdiocese leaders have endangered and harmed children in parishes and schools by keeping known abusers in ministry and transferring discovered abusers to assignments where parents and potential victims are unaware of the priests' sexual (problems)," the report said.
Sasso said that the report does not mention the diocese's efforts to fix the problems, including outreaches to the district attorney's office, which he said were not answered.
Among the efforts to help victims, Rigali pointed to the establishment of a victims' assistance coordinators program to provide help for victims who call (215) 587-3880 to report sexual abuse of a minor.
The report names 63 priests "whose abusive behavior was well-documented in archdiocese files and by witnesses who testified" before the grand jury.
Grand Jury Investigation Lasts Three Years
Abraham convened the grand jury investigation in April 2002 amid a nationwide scandal following the disclosure of widespread abuse in the Boston Archdiocese. In the Philadelphia area, church officials have said that 44 priests had been "credibly" accused of sexual assaults since the 1950s but only one priest in the archdiocese has been indicted.
"The evidence is clear. This reaches the top -- the very top of our archdiocese," Abraham said at a news conference. "Regrettably, the perpetrators of these crimes and the people that protected them will never face the penalties they deserve."
"We believe that anyone who has sexually abused a minor, he can be forgiven by God, but the Archdiocese of Philadelphia will not reinsert this person in ministry in any way, no place, zero tolerance," Rigali said. "Now, there are some priests who are indeed repentant and we do have a program whereby they do devote them themselves to a lifetime of prayer and penance, and that's quite independent of any ministry."
DA Calls For Change In Pennsylvania Law
Abraham called for changes in Pennsylvania law that would help to ensure that sexual abuse by priests could not be "so successfully hidden and kept from public scrutiny and criminal prosecution."
Among the recommendations the district attorney's office asked for include:
Craft legislation that would abolish the statute of limitations for sexual offenses against children.
Expand the offense of endangering the welfare of children to ensure that it covers reckless conduct and the conduct of those who directly employ people who take care of children.
Hold unincorporated associations -- such as the archdiocese -- to
the same standards as corporations for crimes committed against children that are sexual in nature.
Enlarge the statute of limitations on civil suits involving child sexual assault.
Read The Reports
Philadelphia District Attorney's Office: Grand Jury Reports
Philadelphia Archdiocese Response
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He wont get squat back........Now the child he has been paying for the last 4 years has lost the only father she has known........They should arrest her for fraud and put her ass in jail ..Gloria Allred, there is one of the problems there, she is proud to be a man hater.....JMHO
Dave wrote:
Here's a perfect example of one of the problems of the Child Support system.
Wrong Man Paid Child Support To Amber Frey
Hairstylist Gave $175/Month For Four Years
POSTED: 2:26 pm PDT September 21, 2005
UPDATED: 4:08 am PDT September 22, 2005
FRESNO, Calif. -- A DNA test shows that the wrong man has been paying child support to Amber Frey.
An attorney said Fresno hairstylist Anthony Flores has been paying Frey $175 a month for nearly four years for Frey's young daughter.
But he said the tests now show the little girl's father is actually Christopher Funch, the owner of Porky's Rib House in Fresno.
Flores was preparing to file a court motion seeking visitation rights, which he has been denied, when the man received word last week that he was not the child's father.
Frey's attorney, Gloria Allred, said Wednesday that her client never intended to deceive Flores.
"Amber, in good faith, always believed that Mr. Flores was her child's father," Allred said.
Frey was thrown into the national spotlight after it was learned that she was the mistress of now convicted murderer Scott Peterson during the time he killed his wife Laci in December of 2003.
The attorney said Flores' reputation has been ruined. He added that he "can't go anywhere without people pointing at him."
Flores said simply, "I want an apology."
http://www.nbc4.tv/news/5003777/detail.html
1) Why did he have to sue her for visitation rights to what everyone thought was his child?
2) Since this isn't his child, shouldn't she be required to pay him back the money he paid out?
3) If she isn't required to pay back the unearned child-support, shouldn't the "real" father?
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Posted: Thu Sep 22nd, 2005 08:30 pm |
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| Lets see now..... 424,000 people and if they each get $100.00 a week thats $42,400,000 per week and we know they will extend benefits to a year thats about 2.2 BILLION. Hang on to your 1040's folks and grab the vaseline!
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Posted: Thu Sep 22nd, 2005 08:18 pm |
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Here's a perfect example of one of the problems of the Child Support system.
Wrong Man Paid Child Support To Amber Frey
Hairstylist Gave $175/Month For Four Years
POSTED: 2:26 pm PDT September 21, 2005
UPDATED: 4:08 am PDT September 22, 2005
FRESNO, Calif. -- A DNA test shows that the wrong man has been paying child support to Amber Frey.
An attorney said Fresno hairstylist Anthony Flores has been paying Frey $175 a month for nearly four years for Frey's young daughter.
But he said the tests now show the little girl's father is actually Christopher Funch, the owner of Porky's Rib House in Fresno.
Flores was preparing to file a court motion seeking visitation rights, which he has been denied, when the man received word last week that he was not the child's father.
Frey's attorney, Gloria Allred, said Wednesday that her client never intended to deceive Flores.
"Amber, in good faith, always believed that Mr. Flores was her child's father," Allred said.
Frey was thrown into the national spotlight after it was learned that she was the mistress of now convicted murderer Scott Peterson during the time he killed his wife Laci in December of 2003.
The attorney said Flores' reputation has been ruined. He added that he "can't go anywhere without people pointing at him."
Flores said simply, "I want an apology."
http://www.nbc4.tv/news/5003777/detail.html
1) Why did he have to sue her for visitation rights to what everyone thought was his child?
2) Since this isn't his child, shouldn't she be required to pay him back the money he paid out?
3) If she isn't required to pay back the unearned child-support, shouldn't the "real" father?
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marc wrote:
I agree.....Way to much PC crap going on.....
I usually go out of my way to piss off the pc.....But then again, I get a kick out of it too......LOL
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Posted: Thu Sep 22nd, 2005 04:07 pm |
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Yikes.....
Jobless Claims Related to Katrina Surge
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER, AP Economics Writer
The number of Americans thrown out of work by Hurricane Katrina shot up by 103,000 last week, bringing the total seeking jobless benefits because of the storm to 214,000, the government reported Thursday.
The latest weekly jobless claims figure showed that the adverse economic impact from the country's most expensive natural disaster continues to rise as more evacuees are able to make it to state unemployment offices to file claims.
The 214,000 total number of applications for unemployment benefits related to the hurricane included 91,000 claims for two weeks ago, a figure that had originally been put at 68,000, and 20,000 claims for the week ending Sept. 3.
The 103,000 new hurricane-related jobless claims were out of a total of 432,000 claims last week, which was the highest level for total jobless claims since July 5, 2003.
Last week's total increase was up from 424,000 claims filed the previous week.
Some private economists are predicting that a half million people or more will have lost jobs when Katrina's final economic toll is calculated.
In the government's most complete forecast of Katrina's impact, the Congressional Budget Office has estimated that Katrina-related job losses will total 400,000 for the final four months of this year.
That estimate was made well before Hurricane Rita developed into a massive storm, forcing the ordered evacuation of more than 1.3 million people in Texas and Louisiana. Rita, which was expected to make landfall in Texas on Saturday, has already shut down oil production off the Texas coast and sent oil prices soaring again.
The CBO estimated that the devastation from Katrina alone would cut economic growth by as much as a full percentage point in the second half of this year. However, forecasters believe much of that decline will be made up in 2006 as billions of dollars in rebuilding projects get under way.
The Labor Department said that the biggest increase in claims for the week ending Sept. 10 occurred in Louisiana, an increase of 49,665, with most of those claims related to the hurricane.
Claims increased by 5,177 in Mississippi, with all of those claims linked to Katrina.
The state data lags one week behind the national claims information.
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