It was the “bug spray” man.

Almost fifty-two years later, that says it all.  

The bug spray man?

“A People Without A Memory Is A People With A Future”
Plaque Outside the Estadio Nacional

“Our scars make us know that our past was real.”
Jane Austen

There’s a special place in Hell for these woman.

Practicing the virtue of Mercy toward their families and because their cases have been or will be determined by criminal courts, we won’t name them, but there’s a special place in Hell for them.

The bishop was late. 

Of course, he was almost always late.

His diocese was huge, with few paved roads.

He was just 27.

So good that he was almost universally referred to as “El Caballero de Futbol” – the “Gentleman of Football.” 

He went to Mass and Communion almost daily and read the Bible daily. 

And he had a great and untamed mullet. 

We’ve found (Truthfully: Just remembered.) the new theme song for the presidential administration: Release by The Platters in 1955, The Great Pretender.
Oh-oh, yes, I'm the great pretender,
Pretending that I'm doing well.
My need is such, I pretend too much.
I'm lonely, but no one can tell.
Oh-oh, yes, I'm the great pretender,
Adrift in a world of my own

On November 1, 1968, during his training with Charlie Company, 1^st Battalion, 22^nd Infantry regiment, 4^th Infantry Division, Thomas William Bennett wrote home, “Out of obligation to a country I love I will go and possibly die…”

They’re great stories.

Mutually contradictory.

In reality, absolutely impossible.

Certainly not history.

“What is built on the basis of force, 
and not on the truth about the equal dignity 
of every human being, 
begins badly and will end badly.”  
Pope Francis

We thought it was something out of the CBS FBI franchise or James Bondesque movies.

Turns out the man the president called “one of the most fit and discrete persons in our territory” was a presidentially appointed member of the Florida Territorial Legislature and Zephania Kingsley was way more than two centuries ahead of his time. 

Just for the fun (and to mess with folks at a cabana club in Palm Beach):

Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of Mexico.

“Don’t join the book burners. 
Don’t think you are going to conceal faults 
by concealing evidence that they ever existed. 
Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book….”
President and General and 
1915 United States Military Academy graduate 
Dwight David Eisenhower 
at the Dartmouth College commencement exercises 
in Hanover, New Hampshire on June 14, 1953

Bless me, Me, for I have (sortta)(almost) sinned.

By accident, I discovered Only Boys Aloud and, for the first time ever (Honest, Me!), I lost (but didn’t waste) almost four hours going bonkers with YouTube following them, and Only Girls Aloud and Only Kids Aloud.

“Pilate sentence him due to fear,
in accordance with the petition and intention of others.
These people sentence him for their own advantage
and without any fear,
by dishonoring him through sin that they could abstain from, 
if they wanted. 
But they neither abstain from sin
nor are they ashamed of their already committed sins,
for they do not take into consideration
their unworthiness of the kindness
of the one whom they do not serve.”
Bridget of Sweden

In the almost twenty-two-hundred years of Christianity, it was a liturgical celebration of the Lord’s Resurrection unlike any other.

It is a truth few “professional” religious – I know I can speak for some really great, genuinely holy, profoundly spiritual priests, Sisters, ministers, rabbis and imams – will admit: Sometimes we just get “prayed out.”

Ooooouuuuuccccchhhhh!!!!!!!!!!

This is so painful that we’ll just quote, cite and provide sources:

• “Oklahoma’s teen birth rate is 25.0 births per 1,000 women - the fourth-highest teen birth rate in the United States… 1-in-5 births to girls ages 15 through 19 are not the mother’s first child.

Senator Lloyd Benson never resided at Number One Observatory Circle, the official residence of the vice president of the United States.

His 1988 vice presidential debate opponent, Senator James Danforth (“Dan”) Quayle did.

True story…

One of my absolutely closest and most cherished (a far better word than “prized” or “special,” because, for me, it means I “carry him in my heart”) friends was kicked out of the prayer service the night before my father’s funeral.

His crime?

Crying too loudly.

Some introductions just don’t come easily.

Others can become an almost-fulltime task.

We’ll try to simplify this one.

A son of Syracuse, New York and immigrant parents from Ukraine, Borys Gudziak ain’t no academic slouch.