One from the past:
Posted on 05/16/2016 10:49:10 AM PDT by usafa92
Wilmette Police "are seeking to check the well-being" of the 49-year-old, they said in a brief press release. Police were called after O'Connor "left the Wilmette area" for a bicycle ride at 0600 local time on Sunday, and had not returned after more than a day. No more information is currently available, police say.
O'Connor became a global star in 1990 with the worldwide hit Nothing Compares 2 U, a song written by Prince. She has recorded 10 solo albums but has also made headlines with controversial outbursts throughout her career. In 1992, she ripped apart a photo of Pope John Paul II during a live television broadcast and has been a strong critic of the Catholic Church over its handling of the child abuse scandal.
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Alive
Jan Hooks and Phil Hartmann at their best.
sang Mandinka on Late Night with David Letterman in 1988, a year after debut album released
Nothing Compares 2 U was number one in Ireland for 11 weeks
wrote her own Irish national anthem
has been outspoken about singer Miley Cyrus, music mogul Simon Cowell and actress Kim Kardashian
performed a tribute to David Bowie at a benefit concert in Chicago in March
WHOA! I did not know she was in a Magdalene laundry! I thought they were all closed down by the time she was born!
No wonder she's got problems!
Is she really missing if no one’s looking?
LOL of course I am. Even 20 years ago she did nothing for me. It’s a line from a SNL skit where Sinatra was asked about her and that was his reply. I think it was Joe Piscopo as Sinatra.
You phrased it the way I do...perfectly.
One from the past:
When priests rape little girls then, I guess you’re fine with that.
I think you've settled on a different aspect of the antecedent from the one intended by the poster. Homosexuality is a mental illness that was specifically tolerated by some unwise seminary directors and bishops in the 1970s and 1980s, leading to men being admitted to the priesthood who would have been excluded in previous centuries. This was at a time when homosexuality was being promoted in institutions throughout the Western world as harmless or even uniquely beneficial.
Only the mentally ill prey on children. Virtually alone among institutions in recent years, the Catholic church has cracked down on sexual deviants in admittance to seminaries and in parishes around the world. It's worth bearing in mind that per capita, the risk to children from homosexual males has continuously been considerably lower at Catholic parishes than at Protestant ones, or in public schools, throughout the period for which detailed statistics are available, which is since 1950.
Now, as always, the vast majority of priests are normal men who grew up playing sports and liking girls. Their "abnormality" is their willingness to consecrate their entire lives and persons to God.
CRAP!
I hate it when I make that kind of a mistake.
Sorry,Don’t get around much any more
From AP: “Wilmette police spokesman Eric Peterson said O’Connor had been located, “is safe and no longer considered a missing or endangered person,” though he wouldn’t say where she was found or release details about her condition.”
Who is Snead?
Actually, O’Connor was the daughter of well-heeled parents. She was a truant (shoplifting, I believe) and was sent to a Magdeline Asylum training center. I do not believe she was made to do laundry (I’m not even sure that was in operation by then) but instead was taught music where she was encouraged to develop her musical talents. I’m sure it was traumatic for her but nothing more than anyone who was sent to juvenile hall in the past and emerged whole or fragmented depending on their inner core of strength.
That’s a riot!
“Pither, P-I-T-H-E-R ...as in Brotherhood, but with PI instead of the BRO and no HOOD.”
Two goofs. Who cares?
She’s been found safe, no details.
Told ya it was a trap.
They found her - apparently alive.
Now maybe she’ll still have time to learn to overcome the hatred that makes he so miserable
Looks like Charles Manson.
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