[8mmMauser]

True confession time! My first convention, there wasn't a RINO in sight. There wasn't a Young Republican in the crowd, I am pretty sure. There wasn't an old Republican in sight. But I did get to see Lonesome George Gobel in person. What could be better than that? Although, in my tender years I was shocked at the language he used. I was shocked that a Catholic may become President as well, not as shocked as a family member who predicted the Pope would rule America.

(I know now Marilyn Monroe played some part and must have been there that day, but my youthful mind could never have handled that.)

I got to shake hands with the nominee that fateful day he vaulted into national campaign. It was JFK, candidate. Yes, I was at the Democrat Convention in the Los Angeles Coliseum. My conscience payed dearly for these youthful transgressions and I have attempted restitution.

Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.

[T'wit]

I shall be deliciously absent for a few days, soaking in some sun. If the absence is longer, then it might not be so much fun. Oremus.

Here is a Haleigh Poutre-related story from the news earlier today. It does not ease my worries about Haleigh very much to know that Massachusetts has hired four times as many doctors and increased its child-protection power. It was, after all, a Massachusetts psychiatrist who helped kill the state's last high-profile child victim (Rebecca). She, the psychiatrist, is the one who diagnosed the child as a mental case at age two and started filling her with the drugs from which Rebecca eventually died. It was state doctors who asked to kill Haleigh, too. There has to be a better way to help battered children than pretending government can do parenting any better than it can fix potholes.

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