Angry Catholic’s Email Threat to Gay Connecticut Lawmakers Revealed

Angry Catholic’s Email Threat to Gay Connecticut Lawmakers Revealed: ”

Last week I posted about a Catholic man who was arrested after sending a threatening email to two gay Connecticut lawmakers.

The legislators, state senator Andrew McDonald, and state representative Michael Lawlor, were instrumental in the states same-sex marriage battle,
but the threats made by Kane were over a church oversight bill that
would have altered the legal, financial, and administrative structure
of local parishes, giving local parishioners more control. Catholics
turned out to protest the bill in mid-March, after a push from local Bishops.
At least one newspaper saw Catholics using this as an excuse to
exercise their anger over the states same-sex marriage decision,
targeting the two gay lawmakers.

The content of the email from Kane was revealed in court today, Fox 61 reports. Kane wrote:

‘You better hope myself and other Catholics dont find out where you
live, cause theres hell to pay for your attack on the church.
(expletive) off. God hates gay sex.’

Earlier reports by the New Haven Advocate that the threats were specific death threats and contained the word ‘kill’ may have been misreported, Fox 61 told Towleroad. The lawmakers reportedly received thousands of emails from around the country.

Zambian VP Kunda: Report Homosexuals to the Police

WWJD?

Zambian VP Kunda: Report Homosexuals to the Police: ”

In parliament this week, Zambian VP George Kunda told officials  that the government knew of people who had married to hide their homosexuality, and instructed people to report those people to the police, according to a Zambian news outlet.

Said Kunda: ‘Zambia is a Christian nation and it shall continue to be so because it
is part of our constitution. And acts such as homosexuality are not
part of the Christian norm. In 2005, this house passed stiff laws
against homosexuality. For people having carnal knowledge of each other
against the order of nature the punishment is a minimum of 15 years
imprisonment. If you have carnal knowledge of an animal you serve a
minimum of 25 years…I know there are some prominent people in our society who are
practicing homosexuality, some of them are engineers, some are lawyers
and some are journalists. If you have information about such people, report them to the law
enforcement agencies. There are also some people who are bisexual and
they marry to cover up their activities, but at the end of the day we
know them.’

The news outlet, Behind the Mask, also reported cries of ’shame’ during Kundas statement, as well as laughter.

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Number Of Political Action Committees Hits Record

When is all this crap ever going to end? Wait, stupid question, none of this will end. Just like everything else over there in our Nation’s Capital this will just keep growing till it eats itself.

Number Of Political Action Committees Hits Record: ”

WASHINGTON — More groups than ever are contributing money to presidential and congressional candidates as their strongest growth in a generation reflects the fervor over last year’s White House election and a desire for access and clout on Capitol Hill.

The Federal Election Commission says that on Jan. 1 there were 4,611 political action committees, which are formed by companies, unions or other groups to raise and spend money to help presidential and congressional candidates. That was 9 percent more than the 4,234 PACs a year earlier.

Many of the ones created last year reflect the types of issues that President Barack Obama and Congress, now largely controlled by Democrats, hope to tackle this year.

Among those forming new committees were the National Asphalt Pavement Association and several local branches of the International Union of Operating Engineers, whose members could benefit from paving new roads; the Patriot Coal Corp. of St. Louis, a large coal producer concerned about energy issues; and Varian Medical Systems of Palo Alto, Calif., a producer of medical devices for treating cancer, which could be affected by Obama’s health care plans.

One of the 540 committees started in 2008 was set up the National Association of Professional Employer Organizations, which represents businesses that handle human resources tasks for other companies. Its members hope lawmakers will make it easier for them to collect payroll taxes for their clients.

‘It’s achieved what we wanted to do,’ Milan Yager, the association’s executive director, said of the $21,000 his group reported in contributions, a relatively tiny sum. ‘We’ve been able to go to some events’ _ fundraisers _ ‘and meet members of Congress and their staff and have face time.’

Such access is precisely why many groups form the committees, says Paul Herrnson, a professor of government at the University of Maryland who has written about campaign finance.

‘The hope is that a member of Congress will consider them part of their policy team, in the sense that they’ll take a phone call or meet with a representative of the group,’ Herrnson said.

While it is natural for the number of such committees to increase in presidential election years, last year’s growth was the strongest in a presidential year since 1984, when there was a 14 percent boost.

The two-year election cycle of 2007 and 2008 also saw record spending of nearly $1.2 billion by PACs, compared with $1.1 billion the previous two years, the election commission said. In the previous presidential campaign of 2003 and 2004, PACs spent $843 million.

Of 2007-2008 spending, $234 million went directly to Democratic candidates and $178 million to Republicans. The rest went to indirect expenditures for candidates, contributions to parties or other PACs, and other expenses.

Most of the new committees spent small fractions of the huge sums expended by established groups. The PAC run by the National Association of Realtors contributed $3.9 million to candidates in 2008, the year’s top amount, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.

The strongest growth among committees was in those formed by ideological or political groups, which grew last year by 23 percent to 1,594. Largely reflecting activity in last year’s campaigns, such new groups included OurGreatestFear.org, which raised money to oppose the Republican ticket of John McCain and Sarah Palin, and PLR PAC, which helped finance conservative radio advertising aimed at the Hispanic community.

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On the Net:

Federal Election Commission: http://www.fec.gov

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(Via The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com.)

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AIG to pay $450 mln bonuses to financial-products staff

Just in case you care …

AIG to pay $450 mln bonuses to financial-products staff – MarketWatch: “
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By MarketWatch
Last update: 1:07 p.m. EDT March 15, 2009Comments: 1265
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — American International Group is set to pay $450 million of bonuses to employees of the unit that was largely responsible for the New York insurer’s near collapse last fall.
The decision to pay bonuses elicited howls of protest in Washington, which has prevented the failure of AIG by providing the insurer with more than $173 billion in aid. The federal government now owns 80% of AIG (AIG:

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Larry Summers, one of President Barack Obama’s top economic advisers, called the payments ‘outrageous,’ and a key House lawmaker, Barney Frank, D.-Mass., told Fox”

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California lawmaker wants to blur Google Earth – CNN.com

I think the horse has left the barn!

California lawmaker wants to blur Google Earth – CNN.com: “”

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Woman embezzled millions, bought 400 shoes while company laid off workers

How pathetic can someone get? And we wonder why the economy is so bad?

Police: Woman embezzled millions, bought 400 shoes while company laid off workers |
KOMO News
- Seattle, Washington
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I love this!

This is how I always want to look at life

Breaking News – Seattle PI

The end may be here!