Biker's Blog

PBS is running a story that I thought was interesting About George Bush and His war on Iraq. Alot of comments about some of his Aides and what they said about the intel on Iraq and how it got to be the reason for War, and the hand the Vice President had in all of it. watch and let me know what you think.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/bushswar/a>

 MoDOT’s Tom Blair says, “We can get the maximum vehicles through in a specific amount of time.”

  Rush hour traffic on I-270 may improve. MoDOT will replace the usual speed limit signs  with electronic signs that can be changed at a moment’s notice.

 Blair says, “ By changing the speed limit were going to get better uniform flow of traffic were going to be able to get  you to and from your destination quicker and safer.”

  The plan includes 270 from Riverview down to 255. The 900 thousand dollar program will operate out of MoDOT's traffic management center. Computers will monitor highway traffic. And if needed speed limit signs will be changed.

For example one sign may read 60 but a few miles later you may be instructed to reduce your speed to 40 to ease congestion. Some motorist worry the whole thing could cost them money due to more speed traps.

 MoDOT says the program has worked in Europe and other states in the U.S..

Are you kidding me, how can this happen, the Cops are going to have a field day with this. What if you are between signs and doing 60 and it changes when you already pass it, how will you know unless they put them every 1/8 mile. the state and local cops are going to love this and we are going to pay for it, Watch and see. What do think of this? is this crazy or what.

Was just wondering if everybody knew we have a chatroom going on in here, the address is.

http://media.myfoxstl.com/media/politics/index.html

Lets use it more and let Fox 2 know we want to keep it

Be Safe

Biker

Has anyone heard the new CD of Robert Plant  (Led Zeppelin) and Alison Krauss (Union Station), It also has T-Bone Burnett playing on all the songs. Great CD, if you haven't here is the link to listen to all the songs on their web site.

http://www.robertplantalisonkrauss.com/site.php?con
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Let me know what you think

As Reported by the Post Dispatch:

Archbishop Raymond Burke has begun the process of defrocking the pastor at St. Stanislaus Kostka Catholic Church.

Rev. Marek Bozek, 32 and a native of Poland, said Monday that he received a letter from Burke last week, informing him that he should present himself before the archbishop for "canonical admonition."

In the letter, Burke said he's begun the process of laicization, or being "dismissed from the clerical state," for Bozek. The letter cited Bozek's participation in schism at the church that has been locked in a battle with the archdiocese over control of its assets and his public support for, and participation in, an ordination ceremony of two Catholic women last year.

Bozek was one of the clerical celebrants at a ceremony at Central Reform Congregation in the Central West End in November when two women were ordained as priests of an organization called Roman Catholic Womenpriests.

The two women who were ordained received letters from Burke before their ordinations stating that if they went through with the ordination, they would be automatically excommunicated. The Roman Catholic church does not ordain women as priests.

In the letter to Bozek, Burke said the priest must repent, apologize, do public penance and return to his own diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau.

Burke declared Bozek excommunicated in late 2005, after Bozek left his parish in Springfield and agreed to pastor St. Stanislaus. Burke and the Polish-heritage parishioners of St. Stanislaus had been in a legal battle over control of the church for nearly two years when the church's lay board of directors hired Bozek as pastor. Burke had removed St. Stanislaus' two priests 18 months earlier.

The archbishop subsequently declared all six of the church's board members excommunicated, and in January 2006, Burke suppressed the parish itself, meaning St. Stanislaus was stripped of its standing as a Roman Catholic church.

All of the board members have appealed the excommunications to the Vatican, which is still considering their cases. In November Burke told two new board members that they would be declared excommunicated if they joined the church's leadership.

Burke was on a retreat, but a spokeswoman cited an archdiocesan policy that the archbishop does not comment on private correspondence.

Bozek said his canon lawyer was "looking for options," but said he was "very open to conversation and dialogue with the archbishop. I'm willing to hear what he has to say."

"My definition of compromise is that I move two steps and he move two steps and we meet in the middle," Bozek said. "But his definition is that I move four steps and he stands immovable like a rock."

The final decision on a defrocking rests with the Vatican. Many priests request laicization in order to return to civilian life, but few are forced out of the priesthood for anything other than sexual abuse. In the six years since the clergy sexual abuse scandal broke nationwide, the Vatican has returned scores of men to lay status.

About 10 priests in the archdiocese have been laicized for sexual abuse. Bozek would seem to be the first priest involuntarily laicized for something other than sexually abusing children.

What do you think about this? Should Burke Rule out or should Bozek stand his Ground?

Hi All,

I would like to know how many people are for the Government to be able to take land that is privately own. Just because a city thinks that land could be used to thier benefit, Is it right for them to be able to take it away from you?