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Mark Foley is in an exclusive Arizona rehab center, according to his attorneys.
The website for the Sierra Tucson bills itself a psychiatric hospitalbut their title tag says “Drug Treatment Center, and emphasizes their facilities for treating coexisting disorders, for example alcoholism and sexual compulsion.

They have a program for sexual trauma recovery that includes 2 tracks [...]

More troubling allegations about Rev. Anthony Mercieca. This time a lawsuit filed by an anonymous altar boy. The Archdiocese of Miami does the now-familiar, “how were we supposed to know?” BS
Asked about the latest allegations, archdiocese spokeswoman Mary Ross Agosta said: “Any of this type of behavior by Father Mercieca was unknown to the archdiocese [...]

I think this does actually qualify as news.
2 witnesses claim Jason Weatherington told them about having sex with Charlie Crist, Republican candidate for Florida Governor.
Weatherington and Crist both deny this. Crist goes further to deny ever having sex with a man.
Crist is one of those Republicans who denies being gay and opposes adoption by gay [...]

Shimkus plants another ‘poor me’ article in a local daily.
Here’s my favorite:
As head of the page board, Shimkus said Tuesday, “I’m like the school board, I’m not the principal.”
Which means I guess, that in Shimkus’s district the school board wouldn’t care if a sexual predator roamed the halls of the high school. His blindnes to [...]

Article from Malta Today about Mercieca and the backwards attitude of Maltese Catholicism to sex abuse.

I’d heard about this and finally sat down and read it at the exhortion of another excellent blog.
The Rolling Stone Article is eye-opening about the abuse of Congress at the hands of the Republicans. You will no some of these facts for sure but did you know
To ensure that Democrats can’t alter any of the [...]

Pretty great rundown of today’s Ethics Comittee “sit-downs”
Hastert does not remember that Reynolds told him about Foley last spring
How convenient. Because that triangulation allows Reynolds to have taken appropriate action in the past, and explains partially why Hastert didn’t do anything about something awful he had been informed of. This allows Hastert to [...]

..but she wants to focus on local Connecticut issues. Which means Nancy Johnson doesn’t want to talk about the Iraq war.
Johnson accused Murphy of distracting voters by bringing forward national issues such as the war in Iraq.
“I believe some very serious mistakes have been made,” she said of the conflict overseas.
Johnson added that she wished [...]

I’d have breathlessly updated you on this when it broke, but it’s an ugly statue with nothing to recommend it, definitely not funny.
It got 315.01 which is more than I’ll ever make on this lousy blog.

Nah, he’s definitely a Trekker for throwing his support behind Star Trek: Enterprise

“All of our numbers look pretty bad and there’s no question that there’s a jet stream in our face,” said House Majority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio.

I don’t know what that means, but it sounds dirty. There’s a little bit of Foley in every one of those lil’ devils.

Dumb, dumb dumb.
Apparently Jim Ryun (R-KS) claimed this month that he didn’t know he lived across the street from former congressman Mark Foley.
Oops. Here’s an article from May about a joint fundraiser he held with Foley and some other studly Republicans. (Please note that another illustrious neighbor was my Rep. Nancy Johnson) (Please also note [...]

Nifty article about the secretive Scott Palmer

Man, this is not a good year for congressional chiefs of staff. Rep. Alexander(R-LA), who took the parents’ complaint over the first set of predatory emails in the Foley Scandal, has a new scandal in his office.
Royal Alexander, his chief of staff, yet strangely no relation to Rep. Alexander is being sued by Alexander’s former [...]

GREAT interview with Danny Stover
That newspaper doesn’t know how to report news. The headline is certainly not that Danny Stover considers himself a ‘viable candidate.’ The headline is that Shimkus’s deplorable behavior has created an opportunity for Stover to finally get his message out, and what a message. This is none of the mixed-message twaddle [...]

From the Things I Would Know If I Did My Homework Dept. - My least favorite Congressman, John Shimkus, who conducted the world’s worst investigation into the Foley scandal, promised to only serve six terms in Congress, a promise he is breaking by running again this year.
“It was a mistake at the time,” the Collinsville [...]

Article from the Chicago Sun-Times: Spokesman says there is a foundation to the rumor but it isn’t Weller.
“We believe we have now gotten to the bottom of this and other reporters who have researched this agree — that what we have been told is that a page or intern who was sponsored by Cong. Weller [...]

Anthony Mercieca is disputing some of the reporting in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune story.

I’ve decided on wrongdoing
He wont quite admit to seduction or sex, but he blames it on the drugs too.
From his home on the island of Gozo, near Italy, Anthony Mercieca described a series of encounters that he said Foley might perceive as sexually inappropriate.
Among them: massaging Foley while the boy was naked, skinny-dipping together at [...]