Archive for April 12th, 2008

Pope Teddy Bear

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

A teddy bear was the first toy commemorating Joseph Ratzinger’s election to the Chair of Peter:

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Pope Benedict XVI speaking about his upcoming trip to the United States

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

Wrong on at least 2 counts

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

Wrong house raided by ATF:

Officers from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives barged into a South Florida home Wednesday only to discover they had the wrong address.

The ATF agents were supposed to conduct a raid at a home in the 2600 block of Northwest 49th Terrace in northwest Miami-Dade County, but they were off by one block. They entered a house on Northwest 49th Street instead.

Philomaine Silvain and her 3-year-old son were among the innocent people inside the home when the agents came in.
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Silvain pointed out damage to her front door.

“The door’s right here,” Silvain said. “There’s a hole right here. It’s broken.”

Her back window was also broken from where federal agents fired canisters into the apartment at about 11:30 p.m. Wednesday.

The agents left the tear gas cans in the house, and Silvain kicked them out and into the street before dumping them into the garbage.

No one from the ATF would speak to NBC 6 on camera, but a representative said over the phone that it was an innocent mistake, agents apologized on the scene and ATF would repair any damages.

Silvain’s door has already been fixed. However, she said she plans on speaking with a lawyer.

The officers did arrest the man they actually were looking for one street away.

1. Wrong house, gestapo tactics.
2. The ATF exists.

Religion is the opiate of the masses

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

Karl Marx? No*. Barack Obama:

And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”

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* Well, yes, but not recently.