A hate crime in Haymarket???

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The good folks of Mount Pleasant Baptist Church were busy packing 100 backpacks for poor children so they would have school supplies in September, right before the fire  destroyed their church last August.  The next day, after they rescued 2 beloved Bibles, they went right back to packing those backpacks for poor children.  They weren’t letting fire get in the way of their mission.   Actually, their mission and generosity don’t surprise me one little bit.

I have been blessed to know at least one member of this congregation and I can say unequivocally that this lady is one of the finest Christian women  I have ever known, in a quiet,  unassuming way.   She has no idea I think this of her and if she read this blog she wouldn’t know me behind my moniker or have any idea I was speaking of her.  That’s just how she is.

But I digress….

November 29, Maurice Thomson Michaely of Haymarket was charged with setting the fire that destroyed the entire building.  Why would anyone burn down a church?  Why would a white man burn down a black church?  It is too early to know if Michaely  will be charged with a hate crime but one has to ask those questions.  At any rate, the incident sickens me.  The question continues to be why?  What sick individual would do something like this?    Shame on anyone who thinks of doing something like this.

Further reading:  Haymarket man charged in church fire

House Committees: Middle age white guys

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They still haven’ty learned.  What is it going to take?  Zero women serving on 2 committees.  That’s ok.  Boehner will just make them chair women on committees they aren’t even on.  The House Administration Committee sounds like housekeeping.  Ooops I was close.  It oversees the house cafeteria services.  Rep. Candace Miller should be able to fill that bill.  She’s a lady.  The problem is, she isn’t on that committee.  That didn’t stop the speaker.  He appointed her anyway.

The House Republicans just don’t get it.  They don’t get that all male leadership rolls don’t belong in this century and that women are simply not going to accept their bullsnort.

 

Auditors RIF’ed: Don’t gut the feather pillow

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Washingtonpost.com

The Prince William Board of County Supervisors is expected to vote Tuesday to eliminate the county’s internal auditor department and outsource the work to a contractor, a move that critics charge would deprive the county of an internal, independent watchdog.

In a strongly worded memo, the county’s auditing department said the plan would undercut the county’s credibility and bring in outsiders who are not familiar with the complicated workings of the government, which has an operating budget of $914 million.

“The public should be able to have confidence that there is a genuinely independent internal audit function,” read the memo, which was obtained by The Washington Post.

If the job is outsourced, “taxpayers will never be able to count on learning the truth about what may be going wrong in the county.” The memo also said the plan “would give taxpayers the impression of a county’s desire to not shed light on potentially embarrassing audit findings that could also look bad to regulators or rating agencies.”

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