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  1. At least one and perhaps as many as two already have. Cardinal Donald Wuerl of D.C. and the papal nuncio (ambassador) to the United States are both reportedly missing.

    Or do you mean "missing" as in the possibility of a RICO indictment would make Italy's finest families too nervous and they start assassinating people? That hasn't happened yet, but the whistleblower has gone into hiding and his testimony refers to the "premature" deaths of two colleagues.

  2. This is getting really ugly, really fast.

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    Church Militant has learned from reliable sources that Pope Francis has directed Cdl. Donald Wuerl of Washington, D.C. be spirited out of the United States before Wuerl can be arrested by U.S. federal authorities.

    Earlier suspicions were that Wuerl had already left the country but those reports are not true.

    As Church Militant has been reporting, the Department of Justice is seriously looking at opening up a RICO investigation against the Catholic Church in the United States, and Wuerl would be one of the prime targets of any such investigation.

    According to sources, Pope Francis is afraid that if Wuerl were to be arrested and charged, he would reveal all he knows, and the DOJ case would lead straight back to the Vatican with the looming prospect of international criminality being exposed.

    Edit: I don't know what theory RICO would involve, since child abuse is not a predicate offense. But I'm guessing it involves racketeering. After all, tons of cops and prosecutors looked the other way.

  3. Since my son is now a high school freshman, I figured it was time for another father-son chat about girls. He hasn't shown much interest thus far, but he's an Aspie and pretty much every guy in the family was a late bloomer when it came to dating. So I'm dropping awesome dad knowledge about not putting it on a pedestal, how it's a numbers game, etc. The talk went on for some time and was mostly one-sided aside from a few shrugs and I-don't-knows. 

    Later that night at dinner, my wife, (his step-mother), asks if he'll be dating this year.

    "I think I lack the emotional maturity for dating right now."

    Where was that earlier in the day?

     

  4. 51 minutes ago, tokamak said:

    I don't really understand the full sequence of events here. Do I have this all pretty much right?

    1. senior leaders in the church become aware that McCarrick is a pedophile no later than the early-2000s (while JP2 is pope)
    2. Benedict is told several years later and the official church response basically amounts to "hey McCarrick stay out of sight and away from kids" (which Vigano appears to be OK with?)
    3. Francis becomes pope and rescinds even that token "punishment" even though Vigano (and possibly Benedict?) warned him about McCarrick
    4. McCarrick gets outed by the press, Francis reinstates the "punishment", then McCarrick resigns altogether shortly afterwards

     

    Honestly, if I have the basics right, this looks pretty bad for the whole church, not just Francis. I know they strongly prefer to handle stuff in-house, but "dude, stop OK?" is not an appropriate punishment for multiple allegations of abuse.

    That's not the sequence of events.

    1. No later than the early 2000s, senior church leaders became aware of what many American leaders already knew via rumors, that McCarrick was molesting adult seminarians.

    2. This finally gets communicated to Pope Benedict around 2009, at which point McCarrick is kicked out of the seminary where he was living and forbidden from lecturing, traveling, and publicly celebrating mass. Except for having to find a new place to live and not celebrating mass in public, McCarrick ignores most of this.

    3. After Bergolio is elected Pope Francis, his ally McCarrick ignores any and all restrictions. At this point, it is not clear if Pope Francis lifted the restrictions or they just ignored them. Given the Pope's documented autocratic ruling style, it is likely nothing was formally rescinded.

    4. In 2018, there is a credible allegation that McCarrick molested a minor decades ago. Pope Francis publicly re-imposes Benedict's punishments and then strips McCarrick of his red hat, (he's no longer a cardinal).

    5. Immediately after McCarrick's punishment, priests, former seminarians, and others launched a Catholic #MeToo movement aimed at the bishops and others in power who permitted the molestation of seminarians.

    6. Then the Pennsylvania grand jury report came out. Some of Pope Francis' closest allies, like Cardinal Donald Wuerl of D.C. were implicated in the cover-up to an extent previously unknown.

    7. Vigano's letter, while definitely representing traditionalists, probably was encouraged by a number of progressive prelates, like Cardinal Dolan of NYC, who have buyer's remorse with Pope Francis and fear the loss of power an actual schism would bring. And there is a de facto schism that has nothing to do with the abuse scandals.

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  5. 17 minutes ago, Hamttx said:

    What level of management were/are you in? I don’t wish to disparage you so please don’t take my comment personally. But my experience is with a company that I was employed with for over 40 years. And with a law department of over 30 attorneys. I can assure you going into a strip club was a huge problem. And every year that law department required All managers to sign a Code of Conduct contract. Every fucking year!

    I agree with you in principle, but I'm with the other poster. There is way too much diversity in practice at employers of varying sizes for there to be a single answer. While we'd like to think that tOSU is closer to your experience than otherwise, academics are notorious for trailing corporate in many areas of risk mitigation.

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  6. On 8/8/2018 at 9:13 PM, TKthunder2 said:

    So based on the recommendations on here I read Hyperion and really enjoyed it, but was pissed that it ended with a cliff hanger so I read Fall of Hyperion and while the ending was satisfying it seemed like he didn’t really want to write another book and filled it full of unnecessary bullshit just to fill pages. 

    Trying to decide if I’m going to read Endymion or not now.  Any input would be appreciated.

    If you liked the Catholic/religious bits and would like to read more, and ,if you didn’t mind the retconning in the second book and would like even more changes, then Endymion is for you. 

  7. On 7/16/2018 at 11:42 AM, 52-80 said:

    havent watched deep enough to speak on the avavasaraldsfala character, but man i cannot stand the actress with her strained slogged, growly, pursed-lip, mink-coated mannerisms and speech

    If she spoke like she did in the book, it wouldn't be a problem. Unfortunately, she isn't old, or ugly enough, in the tv show to capture the book version.

  8. 10 hours ago, bernorange said:

    My son is used to texting everyone about anything.  He texts me all the time when he needs something or his schedule has changed.  And I constantly bitch at him to call me if he needs to communicate, because, while my phone is always on, I don't keep it on my body and check it every 5 minutes like a teenager.  I check it once or twice a day and it sits on the counter in the kitchen all day long (while I work in my home office).

    I tell my son to text me if it isn't immediately important. I often have DND on my iPhone, so I won't hear texts, but I will hear a phone call. So he's trained to call when the matter needs immediate attention, like needing to be picked up ASAP. My wife doesn't get it.

  9. 23 hours ago, Orange^White said:

    HIPAA applies to anyone that has access to personally identifiable health information. The protection is on the person whose health is being disclosed, not the person that has access to it.

    HIPAA only applies to covered entities and certain associates.  Law enforcement is not a covered entity. I had to look into this a few years ago when I got a pharmacy’s old 800-number efax. I reported every medical fax I received to HHS as a HIPAA violation. HHS would always send me a letter thanking me for the report and letting me know that the offender had been punished with remedial training. 

  10. 18 hours ago, kopp0e said:

    This photo looks imposed over the background, I bet she's really 17 and would wait until you get her up to the room then claim a ransom to not tell the cops... #JustSayNo

    Sixteen is legal in Nevada. 

  11. 40 minutes ago, sheeeit said:

    I can only speak to what Catholics currently believe.  I am Catholic.  I think that many of the more ardent evangelicals are the biggest hypocrites I know.  And many are great people with great messages.

    But, as to your question, the Catholic church, today, is welcoming of gays and the Pope is on record as saying God made them (gays) that way and he loves them that way and so does the Pope.  On marriage, people just want to play gotcha and twist words and meanings.  The Pope is on record as being supportive of any union between loving people.  The Catholic church does not oppose these unions at all.  People like to make a big deal by saying something to the effect that the Catholic church does not "recognize" gay marriage but that is disingenuous.  It is no different than Jewish marriages or Muslim marriages or Baptist marriages as far as the Catholic church is concerned.  The catholic church does not recognize those marriages either as Catholic marriages but it certainly respects the marriages and unions.  The Catholic church can only "recognize" a marriage between 2 practicing Catholics of opposite sex.  

    You might want to pick up a copy of the Catechism and the Code of Canon Law. The TL;DR is that the Catholic Church recognizes marriages between two non-Christians as natural marriages. The Church recognizes marriages between two, non-Catholic Christians as sacramental marriages, i.e. the same as a Church wedding between two opposite sex Catholics. Recognition doesn't extend to same-sex unions and polygamous unions.

    Moreover, despite misleading press accounts, Pope Francis has explicitly said only a heterosexual couple can form a family.

  12. Loot the bodies, quickly dispersing the bones in the process so that, if they reanimate, it will be fucking funny.

    Most of the guys I know who aren't into sports are into something else, music/family/business/motorcycle club in one case and law/engineering/politics in another. There are probably a few geeks who don't talk about not being into sports who are, in fact, not into sports.

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  13. If it’s not college football or TCU, I don’t care until the Mavs or Stars make the playoffs. Stopped caring about pro football when the Cowboys started sucking after the introduction of the salary cap with an exception in 2007 when I was in a fantasy league. Except for the Mavs’ playoff runs, haven’t regularly watched pro basketball since Jordan hung it up the second time. Never cared for baseball much until TCU got really good and they’re the limit of my interest. Never cared for soccer, wrestling, or motor sports. Don’t like it much when people say “sportsball”, because there’s rarely a need to shit on someone else’s interests unless it is causing problems in their lives. 

  14. 1 hour ago, Crusher said:

    What the fuck is freakanomics ? Please define.

    My kid would be 30 yrs old now. I made a choice. So did the woman that I thought would be my wife eventually. That didn't happen. We all made a choice. I'll regret it for the rest of my life.

     

    Freakonomics is the name of a book by a Chicago economist (Levitt) and a writer (Dubner). Levitt shot to fame in the late ‘90s for a paper that purported to show that the early ‘90s drop in the crime rate was largely the result of legalizing abortion. Other economists dug into the paper and discovered there were serious issues with the standard error or something like that. Another economist  came along at around the same time and published a paper showing that it wasn’t abortion, but decreasing levels of childhood lead exposure. I don’t recall if her paper ran into problems later. 

  15. A few years back, my grandmother got a call from "my cousin" saying that he was in jail in Oklahoma, please don't tell Dad, and please wire money. This guy sounded like my cousin and even knew our informal nickname for my grandmother. She called my uncle instead and learned that my cousin was at work. They tried the same scam using my name a week later, but she called me instead.I was really glad she didn't get taken in.

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