West Virginia files suit against Catholic Diocese

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Well men, women, boys and girls – it’s getting interesting for the old Catholic church. Seems they can’t keep burying the fact that priests in nearly every diocese are abusing kids.

You may have remembered I posted about Cardinal George Pell – now here’s the thing about Cardinals they are the Princes of the church. Seriously. It’s one step from there to being the Pope.

So the Republican Attorney General in West Virginia has filed a civil suit against the local diocese there. 

I’m hoping the time is up for the Catholic church. You can see little by little the armor being dinged and instead of remaining resolute, it’s severely denting credibility and ability to attract adherents to the church. Good.

Now let me be clear, I left Catholicism some 30+ years ago. I know the gig was up just through studies. Plus I didn’t respect a clerical collar. I understood the purpose of the uniform and knew that it was for intimidation not to mark a holy man. And what did I go to well atheism. I don’t need to get up early on a Sunday morning and tithe 10 or 15 percent of my income to the men of the church.

When it comes to mattresses

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So recently I had been pricing out mattresses and bed frames. First we went to furniture stores and I’ll be honest those stores are highway robbery. Come on $2,000 for a mattress? Really? and $700 for the frame? Total of $2,700.

I was looking for a queen size. Well stumbled on a Gel Foam mattress on of all places WalMart’s web site. For a queen it was $244. As you can see it cost only 12% of the cost at the furniture stores for the same type of mattress. It’s a Lucid mattress.

The bed frame was $89. It does the job and later on we can go for a platform but I’m a frugal sort and don’t believe in paying a fortune for stuff.

So grand total  $333 – so if we compare the totals it comes out to roughly 12.3% the cost as opposed to going through a furniture retailer. Ut si.

Now the bed frame – it does require assembly. I think I glanced at the instruction sheet and said “Shit I can identify the parts pretty easily. And sure enough there are three rails, two have lat holders on only one side, while the central rail has them on both sides. Easy. Took about 20-30 minutes to assemble with the included hex key and wrench.

I will warn you though – WalMart ships via Fedex ground. And they take their sweet mother fucking time. The mattress came after two weeks, the frame a week later.

When it comes time to put another bed in the other bedroom I’ll likely go this route again.

And the bed – super comfy. I like the memory foam. You see, for a better part of my life I’d slept on waterbeds but now of course I don’t want the hassle when we move of having to drain it, roll out all the water etc. But this mattress conforms to my body. Only key difference is that it isn’t heated. But no biggie there. I’m not in the frozen north of the U.S. anymore.

Happy Valentine Day

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So as I am wont to do I do something special. Be it a meal, or chocolates or flowers. But since the spouse lost his sight the flowers are a no go.

But the meal. I picked up some center cut filet mignon. I preheated the oven to 325F. Then  put a tablespoon and half of avocado oil in the cast iron pan. Set the temp to just below medium on the pan. And seasoned the center cuts with pink Himalayan salt and black pepper. About 3-4 minutes per side then into the oven for 15 minutes.

While that was going on I cut three strips of bacon into lardons  and chopped up two shallots. When the steaks came out of the oven I transferred them to plates. Then i set the pan on the burner and browned the bacon lardons about 7 minutes. Transferred the bacon to paper towel lined  plate and then cooked the shallots for 2 minutes in the bacon fat. Once that was done I put the cooked bacon back in and added perhaps 1/3 cup of half and half. Seasoned it with salt and pepper and spooned that right over the now rested center cuts. Had it with some sauteed spinach. It was perfect.

Let me tell you the sauce is a keeper. It tastes awesome. I’m thinking it would work on chicken, fish, pork you name it.

For dessert it was two each dark chocolate covered strawberries.

 

A Very Stable Genius

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I’m now 200 pages into the tome and I have to say the read I get of the Trump administration is that it’s an absolute and utter shit show. Date wise I’m up to the year 2017 and that was a banner year that proved the general ignorance of our President.

The Democrats would do well to read this book. It has enough ammo in it to completely derail a trump 2020 campaign. Because when you have a man who THINKS he knows better it’s a very dangerous thing. Just because you think it doesn’t make it true. And the gaps in his knowledge of European history and even Asian history are astounding.

I just read the part where Rex Tillerson called Trump a fucking moron. I think that’s the most concise summary of the President. The man is a moron. How he got elected I’ll never know well I do sort of know because those who voted for him are also morons. Hillary Clinton was wrong to call them the deplorables  instead they are simply too stupid, too moronic and will always vote against their own self interest. It’s actually astounding.

It’s like the man cannot admit the simple phrase “I don’t know, could you please elaborate.” Instead he speaks off the cuff and does so much damage to our reputation as a country that it’s actually sad.

I recall a video I’ve seen of Trump in his more lucid days. He said in the video that if he were ever to run for office he’d run as a Republican because the Republicans were the more easily hoodwinked voters. That’s when he actually had some brains. But as he’s gotten older and more set in certain ways he’s doing an incredible amount of damage to this country. The only advice I could give him is it’s ok to occasionally admit you can’t know everything. It’s why you build a team around you that can help smooth out the bumps. But when the team is just lurching from crisis to crisis it cannot work.

I’m waiting to get to the part where Jared Kushner and Ivanka’s security clearance was just blanket waived as one of the dumbest moves ever.

In essence the authors of the book are simply hanging the President with his own words and deeds. I love it.

Allergy season has begun

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So as I’ve mentioned I’m allergic to the pollen of trees and grasses. For the past two days I’m getting nasal mucus but it runs clear which means no infection. And my eyes are itching out of my head.

So back on the allergy meds I go. And the eye drops. Because even at a low level of tree pollen my allergies get unbearable.

If you recall

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Back in December 2019 I’d written it was 72F. Well here we are in February 2020  and it’s raining and 72F. In February. I’m more familiar with it being close to sub zero this time of year.

I also note news media is the same down here as it was in the north. They’ll wax and wane about weather, dead bodies, etc.

The latest

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It’s getting pretty unreal here at Casa Truthspew. Apparently yesterday morning a brick was thrown through sliding glass doors that connect to our deck. I suspect the miscreant wanted to grab the TV which was on the right hand side but then realized someone was in the house.

It definitely traumatized someone. I’ve not heard the end of that yet. I’m pretty sure I know who did it. A police report was filed and I’ll talk to the police and fill them in.

The Nazi’s Really Were Monstrous

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PBS Video;

That they torched the killing chambers as if to erase their crimes against humanity. That one really gets to me. It proves they knew what they were doing was wrong and did it anyways. Now I know why we tried a whole bunch of the bastards an Nuremberg. They had to pay for what they had done.