And the return volley....

**Don Corleone** · 09-30-2005, 19:00

Here it comes... Sen. Harry Reid apparently arranged for a federal grant to 2 pastors from the Justice Department. The 423,000 was originally earmarked for 1/2way houses, but the two pastors used 330,000 it on themselves: http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_ho...s/3594772.html. Reid's relationship to the church dates back to 1996 when he and John Huang (of felony conviction for illegal contributions to the Clinton campaign fame) began making contributions to the church. Little early to tell, but sounds like a vote-buying charge is right around the corner.

Mark my words, there's going to be a lot more blood on both sides. I love it when the Democrats & Republicans decide to go mafioso on each other... It's like a mob-war, 'you puts one of ours in the hospital, we puts one of yous in the morgue'.

**Reverend Joe** · 09-30-2005, 19:07

Are you on a thread-posting rampage? Has the day without the org affected you that badly?

Do you need a

?

**Seamus Fermanagh** · 09-30-2005, 19:08

It may be worth it though, clear out some of the more obvious crooks (not party sensitive). If the pork and graft is that obvious, the offenders should get hammered.

...isn't that what Clemenza said, that this sort of thing had to happen every 5 or 10 years to clear the air a bit.

Seamus

**Don Corleone** · 09-30-2005, 19:23

No, no rampage. Just a couple of items that came up at lunch that I wanted to share. I do live the blood feuds that come up every 10 years or so. I love that line by Clemenza.

**drone** · 09-30-2005, 19:35

"Leave the gun. Take the canolli."

Maybe it's time to fire up the ol' Ethics Committee. Anything to keep celebs out of the news.

**Red Harvest** · 09-30-2005, 19:38

Well, I've looked at the article, and the corrections they have made to it, and I'm not seeing what you are seeing/saying. Looks like a fairly common case of money being given to churches ending up lining the minister's pocket instead of going to its purported cause. Nothing new. That's why there is some auditing and such, to eventually uncover these things.

**Seamus Fermanagh** · 10-01-2005, 04:21

Originally Posted by drone

"Leave the gun. Take the canolli."

Anything to keep celebs out of the news.

"Oh, Paulie...you won't see him no more."

One can only hope. Supermarket checkouts are chock full of "news" about Angelina adopting an alien baby or Brittany (sp?) whelping. Waste of perfectly good tree if you ask me. All the attention actually makes some of them think they are more important than a good plumber.

Seamus

**solypsist** · 10-01-2005, 07:41

for 2004-5

so we've got:

No WMDs
Halliburton no bid contracts
Afghanistan's Missing $700 Million Turns Up in Iraq
EPA WTC report censored to state unsafe air was safe (revealed)
John Ashcroft's Illegal Campaign Contributions
No-receipt electronic voting booths in swing states
Bogus Medicare "Video News Release"
Armstrong Williams, news columnist on GOP payroll
Mike McManus, news columnist on GOP payroll
Maggie Gallagher, news columnist on GOP payroll
Abu Ghraib
Jeff Gannon, male escort/planted reporter
Wiretapping the United Nations
Katrina, "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job!"
Roves role in the Plame game
indicted House Majority Leader (R) DeLay on ethics charges

vs.

two priests are indicted for fraud for misusing money received from a grants arranged by (D) Reid in 1997
(btw, the prosecutor is a Dem)

(I'm sure I'm missing some more of the Bush administration stuff, but it's late and I'm tired)

**Red Harvest** · 10-01-2005, 07:51

Frist is having some trouble over the timing of some stock sales in his not so blind trust. (Selling HCA.) Too bad, there were a couple of things the guy was speaking out on that I actually agreed with.