artists rendition of CD’s buddy Pazuzu and a Catholic priest who attempted to get near her nephew

And this isn’t helping.

One image in the book features a guardian angel hovering over an altar boy with a priest lurking in the background.

“For safety’s sake, a child and an adult shouldn’t be alone in a closed room together,” the angel counsels. In another, the angel warns of a sexual predator attempting to chat with a child over the Internet.

Looks like the little angel is going to give me an hour of freetime this morning, so I thought I’d share some thoughts before we’re off to the races.
My niece’s mother is an avid reader; she’s one of those people who I think is wasted in the corporate world, such a fine and curious mind has she. So in quiet spells, I’ve been doing a little review of her library, and one of her most recent shopping sprees at the bookstore resulted in a bevy of books on religion, a subject dear to my heart.  Read more 

These guys can ram through a law to destroy 900 years of jurisprudence by trashing the separation of powers, and give Bush the power to imprison any US citizen for anything, indefinitely, and they can’t protect one teenager from a sexual predator? WTF?

AP, 5:42PM on this fast-breaking story:

Hastert Told of Foley Months Ago
Rep. Thomas Reynolds, head of the House Republican election effort, said he told Speaker Dennis Hastert after learning a fellow GOP lawmaker sent inappropriate messages to a teenage boy.

The boy who received the e-mails was 16 in summer 2005 when he worked in Congress as a page. After the boy returned to his Louisiana home, the congressman e-mailed him, and the teenager thought the messages were inappropriate, particularly one in which Foley asked the teen to send a picture of himself.

The teen’s family contacted their congressman, Rep. Rodney Alexander, R-La., who then discussed it with Reynolds sometime this spring.

So, Reynolds hears a child in his district has been “inappropriately” contacted, and then Reynolds contacts Alexander, the Republican campaign manager? What’s up with that?

What’s wrong with these people? Well…  Read more 

Those Republicans. All class.  Read more