Wednesday, September 28, 2005
WHY MY CHILDREN ARE IN PUBLIC SCHOOL, EXAMPLE 455633
Jackpot priest in D.A.'s perv report
When the Rev. Frank Giliberti won more than $1 million at an Atlantic City casino 17 years ago, the portly priest promised to give it all away.
He funded a pricey remodel of his Wynnefield church, set up a scholarship fund for poor high-schoolers and spread the wealth to other needy causes.
Now, it seems, he was just doing penance.
The retired cleric was one of 63 priests blasted in a report the district attorney released last week detailing decades of sexual abuse by priests in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
Giliberti, now 68 and living in a Darby nursing home for retired priests, is accused of running a so-called anti-masturbation "boot camp" at his Jersey shore house where he walked in on boys as they masturbated. He also allegedly abused at least two boys while he was still a seminarian and another two who were his students at Cardinal O'Hara High School, in Springfield, Delaware County.
A 15-year-old boy in Giliberti's religion class at Cardinal O'Hara High School in Delaware County reported that Giliberti fondled him, gave him beer, encouraged him to masturbate and to expose himself to his sister and offered to have sex with him, according to the report.
The boy later was so ashamed that he set his penis on fire with lighter fluid.
Another allegation involved a 17-year-old O'Hara student who went to Giliberti for guidance as he struggled with his sexuality. The boy claimed Giliberti offered to introduce him to some gay men and also encouraged him to masturbate, according to the report.
Giliberti also is accused of molesting two teenage boys in the late 1960s.
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Jackpot priest in D.A.'s perv report
When the Rev. Frank Giliberti won more than $1 million at an Atlantic City casino 17 years ago, the portly priest promised to give it all away.
He funded a pricey remodel of his Wynnefield church, set up a scholarship fund for poor high-schoolers and spread the wealth to other needy causes.
Now, it seems, he was just doing penance.
The retired cleric was one of 63 priests blasted in a report the district attorney released last week detailing decades of sexual abuse by priests in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
Giliberti, now 68 and living in a Darby nursing home for retired priests, is accused of running a so-called anti-masturbation "boot camp" at his Jersey shore house where he walked in on boys as they masturbated. He also allegedly abused at least two boys while he was still a seminarian and another two who were his students at Cardinal O'Hara High School, in Springfield, Delaware County.
A 15-year-old boy in Giliberti's religion class at Cardinal O'Hara High School in Delaware County reported that Giliberti fondled him, gave him beer, encouraged him to masturbate and to expose himself to his sister and offered to have sex with him, according to the report.
The boy later was so ashamed that he set his penis on fire with lighter fluid.
Another allegation involved a 17-year-old O'Hara student who went to Giliberti for guidance as he struggled with his sexuality. The boy claimed Giliberti offered to introduce him to some gay men and also encouraged him to masturbate, according to the report.
Giliberti also is accused of molesting two teenage boys in the late 1960s.
from Philly.com
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
IL VENDITORE SI GUARDA DA
An amusing sidebar from the Junior Gotti trial:
Gambino associate Andrew DiDonato, coolly recounted the bullet he fired into the head of a neighbor who had the nerve to sell his wife a car. ("I didn't want my wife taking favors from other men," he explained.)
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An amusing sidebar from the Junior Gotti trial:
Gambino associate Andrew DiDonato, coolly recounted the bullet he fired into the head of a neighbor who had the nerve to sell his wife a car. ("I didn't want my wife taking favors from other men," he explained.)
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Wednesday, September 21, 2005
BORED?
There is a narrow parking lot in Cunningham Park in Queens surrounded by playing fields for adult softball and youth soccer and baseball. At one end of the lot, retirees arrive to practice their golf and mothers in minivans gather to wait for their Little Leaguers.
The other end is popular with another set with a much lower profile in this suburban setting: gay men cruising for sex. Their playing field is the parking lot itself and the goal is a sexual encounter, usually quick and anonymous.
Manhattan may have its gay bars and such traditional pickup spots as the woods of the Ramble in Central Park and the piers of the West Village. But in the less-accepting climate of the suburbs and the boroughs outside Manhattan, gay men often resort to courting one another from the relative safety and privacy of their cars. They troll remote parking lots that become de facto pickup spots well known in gay circles but not to the general public.
The parking lot in Queens seems to be especially popular with men who lead ostensibly heterosexual lives but show up for sex because it is quick, easy to get and secretive, regulars say.
"The vast majority of men who come here are married," said one longtime parking lot user, who like the other men interviewed there recently would not tell his name because of concerns ranging from embarrassment to fears of gay-bashing.
"I can't tell you how many guys I've had here who were wearing wedding bands, with baby seats in the car and all kinds of kids' toys on the floor. It's on their way home and they don't have to get involved in a relationship or any gay lifestyle or social circles. They don't even have to buy anyone a drink or be seen in a gay bar. They just tell the wife, 'Honey, I'll be home an hour late tonight.' "
Regulars say that the married men enjoy the risk and recklessness of semipublic sex, which usually means receiving oral sex in their cars or having other sexual encounters in the woods nearby.
"Some aren't getting it at home," the man added. "Some say, 'I'm not even gay. I'm just
bored.' "
culled from NYT article
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There is a narrow parking lot in Cunningham Park in Queens surrounded by playing fields for adult softball and youth soccer and baseball. At one end of the lot, retirees arrive to practice their golf and mothers in minivans gather to wait for their Little Leaguers.
The other end is popular with another set with a much lower profile in this suburban setting: gay men cruising for sex. Their playing field is the parking lot itself and the goal is a sexual encounter, usually quick and anonymous.
Manhattan may have its gay bars and such traditional pickup spots as the woods of the Ramble in Central Park and the piers of the West Village. But in the less-accepting climate of the suburbs and the boroughs outside Manhattan, gay men often resort to courting one another from the relative safety and privacy of their cars. They troll remote parking lots that become de facto pickup spots well known in gay circles but not to the general public.
The parking lot in Queens seems to be especially popular with men who lead ostensibly heterosexual lives but show up for sex because it is quick, easy to get and secretive, regulars say.
"The vast majority of men who come here are married," said one longtime parking lot user, who like the other men interviewed there recently would not tell his name because of concerns ranging from embarrassment to fears of gay-bashing.
"I can't tell you how many guys I've had here who were wearing wedding bands, with baby seats in the car and all kinds of kids' toys on the floor. It's on their way home and they don't have to get involved in a relationship or any gay lifestyle or social circles. They don't even have to buy anyone a drink or be seen in a gay bar. They just tell the wife, 'Honey, I'll be home an hour late tonight.' "
Regulars say that the married men enjoy the risk and recklessness of semipublic sex, which usually means receiving oral sex in their cars or having other sexual encounters in the woods nearby.
"Some aren't getting it at home," the man added. "Some say, 'I'm not even gay. I'm just
bored.' "
culled from NYT article
Monday, September 19, 2005
IS THAT ALL? LET'S GET A COUPLE THEN!
NASA Says Moon Rocket Will Cost $104 Billion
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- NASA estimated Monday it will cost $104 billion to return astronauts to the moon by 2018 in a new rocket that combines the space shuttle with the capsule of an earlier NASA era.
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NASA Says Moon Rocket Will Cost $104 Billion
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- NASA estimated Monday it will cost $104 billion to return astronauts to the moon by 2018 in a new rocket that combines the space shuttle with the capsule of an earlier NASA era.
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POSTUS INTERRUPTUS
Boy that Kanye West has got my goat. I can't believe he said those things about President Bush, that he doesn't like black people. Even after a couple of weeks I can't get it out of my mind. It's the one thing about the hurricane that really bothers me. There's a lot of human misery for sure, but is that any call to say negative things about out Dear Leader? I think not. I applauded when that football crowd booed Kanye West on that Thursday night football game. Football fans are patriotic for sure, they know what's what.
The more I think about it, the more I want to put together a list of how President Bush has been helping black people, to put K. West's lies out to pasture. What I'm gonna have is all the initiatives, laws, social programs, ect., ect. and such that the President of the U.S. has had to help all of the black people.
All right, here goes.
I think I better use Google to get them all in order.
Just a minute:
Um, um. Just hold on a second till I get the results.
Darn. There's someone at the door. I'll have to get back to you later.
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Boy that Kanye West has got my goat. I can't believe he said those things about President Bush, that he doesn't like black people. Even after a couple of weeks I can't get it out of my mind. It's the one thing about the hurricane that really bothers me. There's a lot of human misery for sure, but is that any call to say negative things about out Dear Leader? I think not. I applauded when that football crowd booed Kanye West on that Thursday night football game. Football fans are patriotic for sure, they know what's what.
The more I think about it, the more I want to put together a list of how President Bush has been helping black people, to put K. West's lies out to pasture. What I'm gonna have is all the initiatives, laws, social programs, ect., ect. and such that the President of the U.S. has had to help all of the black people.
All right, here goes.
I think I better use Google to get them all in order.
Just a minute:
Um, um. Just hold on a second till I get the results.
Darn. There's someone at the door. I'll have to get back to you later.
Friday, September 16, 2005
WITH ALL OF OUR SUCCESSES IN IRAQ, AND THE MASTERFUL HURRICANE RELIEF EFFORT, IT'S EASY TO OVERLOOK HOW GREAT THINGS ARE GOING IN AFGHANISTAN
Afghan Candidate Is Killed as Taliban Warns Against Voting
Suspected Taliban militants shot dead a candidate in Afghanistan's weekend elections, an official said on Friday, as the guerrillas warned voters they could be hurt unless they boycotted the polls.
National Assembly candidate Abdul Hadi was shot dead on Thursday night in the southern province of Helmand, provincial spokesman Mohammad Wali Alizai said. He was the seventh candidate to be killed.
"The gunmen called at his house and when he came out they opened fire and killed him,'' he said, adding that the attackers were believed to be Taliban guerrillas.
Militant violence has been the main worry in the run-up to the landmark parliamentary and provincial polls.
More than 1,000 people have been killed this year -- most of them militants, but including 49 U.S. troops -- the bloodiest period since the Taliban were ousted from power in 2001.
The Taliban, who have denounced the polls, claimed responsibility for killing Hadi.
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Afghan Candidate Is Killed as Taliban Warns Against Voting
Suspected Taliban militants shot dead a candidate in Afghanistan's weekend elections, an official said on Friday, as the guerrillas warned voters they could be hurt unless they boycotted the polls.
National Assembly candidate Abdul Hadi was shot dead on Thursday night in the southern province of Helmand, provincial spokesman Mohammad Wali Alizai said. He was the seventh candidate to be killed.
"The gunmen called at his house and when he came out they opened fire and killed him,'' he said, adding that the attackers were believed to be Taliban guerrillas.
Militant violence has been the main worry in the run-up to the landmark parliamentary and provincial polls.
More than 1,000 people have been killed this year -- most of them militants, but including 49 U.S. troops -- the bloodiest period since the Taliban were ousted from power in 2001.
The Taliban, who have denounced the polls, claimed responsibility for killing Hadi.
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THEY NEVER LEARN, DO THEY?*
Editor nabbed in bid for sex with girl, 13
A magazine editor was charged yesterday with trying to pick up a 13-year-old girl on the Internet for sex, federal authorities said.
Tim McDarrah, an Us Weekly editor and former New York Post reporter, offered to pay $200 for "sex with a YOUNG hottie," and was nabbed when he showed up at a Manhattan building where he thought the girl lived, authorities said.
McDarrah, 43, who allegedly used his mother's AOL account, to set up the illicit tryst, was charged with using a computer to persuade a minor to engage in sex, officials said.
"He told [the agent posing as the girl] that 17 is the age of consent, but he didn't plan to wait that long," an undercover federal agent pretending to be the girl said, according court papers.
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*how many times must these perverts be told?
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Editor nabbed in bid for sex with girl, 13
A magazine editor was charged yesterday with trying to pick up a 13-year-old girl on the Internet for sex, federal authorities said.
Tim McDarrah, an Us Weekly editor and former New York Post reporter, offered to pay $200 for "sex with a YOUNG hottie," and was nabbed when he showed up at a Manhattan building where he thought the girl lived, authorities said.
McDarrah, 43, who allegedly used his mother's AOL account, to set up the illicit tryst, was charged with using a computer to persuade a minor to engage in sex, officials said.
"He told [the agent posing as the girl] that 17 is the age of consent, but he didn't plan to wait that long," an undercover federal agent pretending to be the girl said, according court papers.
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*how many times must these perverts be told?
Thursday, September 15, 2005
ALSO, HAS ANYONE SEEN MY PALOMINO? SHE'S GOT A TOUCH OF EBOLA, BUT IT'S NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT.
Plague-Infected Mice Missing From N.J. Lab
Officials Say the Health Risk to the Public Is Low
Sept. 15, 2005 — The FBI and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are investigating the disappearance from a New Jersey research lab of at least three mice carrying a deadly strain of plague.
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Plague-Infected Mice Missing From N.J. Lab
Officials Say the Health Risk to the Public Is Low
Sept. 15, 2005 — The FBI and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are investigating the disappearance from a New Jersey research lab of at least three mice carrying a deadly strain of plague.
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HE USES ONLY LIVE CATS
Inventor denies using dead cats for fuel
German says alternative diesel uses waste paper products, possibly a toad
BERLIN - A German inventor said he has developed a method to produce crude oil products from waste that he believes can be an answer to the soaring costs of fuel, but denied a German newspaper story implying he also used dead cats.
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Inventor denies using dead cats for fuel
German says alternative diesel uses waste paper products, possibly a toad
BERLIN - A German inventor said he has developed a method to produce crude oil products from waste that he believes can be an answer to the soaring costs of fuel, but denied a German newspaper story implying he also used dead cats.
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Wednesday, September 14, 2005
NEWS YOU CAN USE
OD kills court clerk - cops
A cross-dressing court clerk was found dead yesterday, holding a sex toy and bound with women's pantyhose inside his Queens apartment, police sources said.
Nicholas Diolosa, 46, died of an apparent drug overdose inside the basement apartment on 123rd St. in College Point, the sources said.
Diolosa, a senior criminal court clerk, was wearing a bra and panties and heroin was near his body when his girlfriend found him about 10 a.m., the sources said.
"Sometimes good people get involved in bad things," said his brother, John Diolosa, 44.
Several neighbors acknowledged hearing Nicholas Diolosa screaming between 1 a.m. and 3 a.m., but no one called police.
"We thought to call the cops, but then everything got so quiet," said Peter Gouvadsos, who lives on the second floor.
Neighbors said they had heard Diolosa screaming on other days, including a recent midmorning rant in which he yelled: "I hate my life!"
Diolosa, a former Marine and father of three who had who worked for the courts for 22 years, was in the midst of his second divorce, his landlord said.
"This is very surprising," said neighbor Maria Goubadsos, 34. "He looked like a very macho man."
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OD kills court clerk - cops
A cross-dressing court clerk was found dead yesterday, holding a sex toy and bound with women's pantyhose inside his Queens apartment, police sources said.
Nicholas Diolosa, 46, died of an apparent drug overdose inside the basement apartment on 123rd St. in College Point, the sources said.
Diolosa, a senior criminal court clerk, was wearing a bra and panties and heroin was near his body when his girlfriend found him about 10 a.m., the sources said.
"Sometimes good people get involved in bad things," said his brother, John Diolosa, 44.
Several neighbors acknowledged hearing Nicholas Diolosa screaming between 1 a.m. and 3 a.m., but no one called police.
"We thought to call the cops, but then everything got so quiet," said Peter Gouvadsos, who lives on the second floor.
Neighbors said they had heard Diolosa screaming on other days, including a recent midmorning rant in which he yelled: "I hate my life!"
Diolosa, a former Marine and father of three who had who worked for the courts for 22 years, was in the midst of his second divorce, his landlord said.
"This is very surprising," said neighbor Maria Goubadsos, 34. "He looked like a very macho man."
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Tuesday, September 13, 2005
MAYBE IF THE NEW ORLEANIANS HAD LISTENED TO THIS GUY TWO YEARS AGO AND DUCT TAPED THOSE LEVEES GOOD AND TIGHT, THE CATASTROPHE COULD HAVE BEEN AVERTED
From AmericaBlog
Bush puts "duct tape" idiot in charge of FEMA
Guess who Bush just appointed as the acting head of FEMA? Yes, you guessed it. The idiot who caused the "duct tape" scare two years ago. Yes, David Paulison, a top official in Homeland Security, has just been appointed by Bush as the acting new head of FEMA.
President George W. Bush on Monday named David Paulison, a top official in the Homeland Security Department, to replace Michael Brown on an acting basis as head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.This is the same David Paulison who gave us the infamous "duct tape" scare a little over two years ago.
Americans have apparently heeded the U.S. government's advice to prepare for terror attacks, emptying hardware store shelves of duct tape.On Tuesday, less than 24 hours after U.S. Fire Administrator David Paulison described a list of useful items, stores in the greater Washington, D.C. area reported a surge in sales of plastic sheeting, duct tape, and other emergency items. Great. So we've gone from Brownie (aka Drownie) to Duckie.
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From AmericaBlog
Bush puts "duct tape" idiot in charge of FEMA
Guess who Bush just appointed as the acting head of FEMA? Yes, you guessed it. The idiot who caused the "duct tape" scare two years ago. Yes, David Paulison, a top official in Homeland Security, has just been appointed by Bush as the acting new head of FEMA.
President George W. Bush on Monday named David Paulison, a top official in the Homeland Security Department, to replace Michael Brown on an acting basis as head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.This is the same David Paulison who gave us the infamous "duct tape" scare a little over two years ago.
Americans have apparently heeded the U.S. government's advice to prepare for terror attacks, emptying hardware store shelves of duct tape.On Tuesday, less than 24 hours after U.S. Fire Administrator David Paulison described a list of useful items, stores in the greater Washington, D.C. area reported a surge in sales of plastic sheeting, duct tape, and other emergency items. Great. So we've gone from Brownie (aka Drownie) to Duckie.
Wednesday, September 07, 2005
BACK TO SCHOOLDAYS
Demoted after calling kids 'animals'
The Queens assistant principal who forced a dozen Haitian students to eat their lunch off the cafeteria floor while calling them "animals," has been demoted, the Daily News has learned.
Nancy Miller, the former assistant principal at Public School 34 in Queens Village, was bounced to the job title of "teacher" while the city continues its bid to fire her, said Department of Education spokeswoman Margie Feinberg.
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Demoted after calling kids 'animals'
The Queens assistant principal who forced a dozen Haitian students to eat their lunch off the cafeteria floor while calling them "animals," has been demoted, the Daily News has learned.
Nancy Miller, the former assistant principal at Public School 34 in Queens Village, was bounced to the job title of "teacher" while the city continues its bid to fire her, said Department of Education spokeswoman Margie Feinberg.
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