❤️ A special Valentines Day meme ❤️

Richmond Va Catholic Diocese 42 "credible and substantiated claim of sexual abuse against a minor."

Introduction
Below are the names of clergy that have served in the Catholic Diocese of Richmond and have a credible and substantiated allegation of sexual abuse involving a minor. This list is being published by the Diocese as we seek to redouble our efforts to assist survivors of abuse. To those who have been abused and who have not contacted law enforcement or diocesan officials, please know that we are here for you.

The Catholic Diocese of Richmond urges individuals who have been sexually abused by a priest, deacon, religious, lay employee or volunteer of the Diocese to report abuse directly to law enforcement, including Child Protective Services (CPS) at 1-800-552-7096, and by calling the Attorney General’s Clergy Abuse Hotline at 1-833-454-9064.

We also encourage individuals to contact the 24-hour confidential Victim’s Assistance Reporting number at 1-877-887-9603 or email vac@richmonddiocese.org to report sexual abuse.

https://richmonddiocese.org/list/

NEMF - New England Motor Freight Files for Bankruptcy, Plans to Wind Down Trucking Operations

In a move sure to shake up the regional less-than-truckload freight market in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states, New England Motor Freight filed for bankruptcy Feb. 11 and said it intends to wind down all of its trucking operations.

The Elizabeth, N.J.-based company announced the move on its website after absorbing losses over the past two years, according to a statement by Vincent Colistra, described as the company’s chief restructuring officer.

“We have worked hard to explore options for New England Motor Freight,” Colistra wrote, “but the macroeconomic factors confronting this industry are significant.”

Established in 1977, NEMF is part of the Shevell Group of Cos. and was a major provider of less-than-truckload freight service in the metropolitan New York and New Jersey region, although its service extended throughout the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic corridor and into Canada.

https://www.ttnews.com/articles/new-england-motor-freight-files-bankruptcy-plans-wind-down-trucking-operations

Florida Man - thinks he's God, wants to "heal and kill people"

Deputies looking for missing Florida man who thinks he is God, wants to heal and kill people




TAMPA, FL — Florida officials are searching for a man who made statements about being God and wanting to kill people.

Ariel Rodriguez, 33, has not been seen since leaving his family's Tampa, Fla. home on Monday.

In addition to making statements about him being God, he believes he is the lion mentioned in the Bible. He also said he wants to heal people and kill people.

https://www.abc15.com/National/deputies-looking-for-missing-florida-man-who-thinks-he-is-god-wants-to-heal-and-kill-people

Fox & Friends host hasn't washed hands in 10years: 'Germs are not a real thing -- I can't see them"

Well, God help him.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/02/fox-friends-host-says-hasnt-washed-hands-10-years-germs-not-real-thing-cant-see/



Fox News host Pete Hegseth explained on Sunday that he doesn’t wash his hands because “germs are not a real thing.”

Following a commercial break, Fox & Friends co-host Jedediah Bila revealed that Hegseth had been munching on day-old pizza that was left on the set.

“Pizza Hut lasts for a long time,” Hegseth replied, defending himself. “My 2019 resolution is to say things on air that I say off air. I don’t think I’ve washed my hands for 10 years. Really, I don’t really wash my hands ever.”

“I inoculate myself,” he continued. “Germs are not a real thing. I can’t see them. Therefore, they’re not real.”

Canadian road rage caught on camera (21 seconds)

Just in time for Valentines Day 😆

What I learned today - John Punch.

I ran into this story via Brooklynite's thread about Gov. Northam.

John Punch. Often referred to as the "first slave in the New World" but really he has the first slave in the English colonies.

John Punch was a servant of Virginia planter Hugh Gwyn, a wealthy landowner, a justice, and a member of the House of Burgesses, representing Charles River County (which would become York County in 1642).[13]

In 1640, Punch ran away to Maryland accompanied by two of Gwyn's European indentured servants. All three were caught and returned to Virginia. On 9 July, the Virginia Governor's Council, which served as the colony's highest court, sentenced both Europeans to have their terms of indenture extended by another four years each. However, they sentenced Punch to a life of servitude. In addition, the council sentenced the three men to thirty lashes each.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Punch_(slave)


John Punch Wasn't the First Slave in America -- Just the First Slave in the English Colonies


One of the problems with the announcement this week is the researchers said "first slave in the United States," meaning the thirteen English colonies on the East Coast, but should have said the thirteen colonies or North American colonies, because some of the media, picking up on the story, simply wrote the “colonies.” Researchers should have identified the “colonies,” because the date they named for the first slave -- 1640, when John Punch was sentenced to a lifetime of perpetual slavery in Virginia -- was hundreds of years after African slavery began in the Americas.

By 1640, other African slaves were enchained in chattel slavery in the Spanish, Portuguese, and English colonies in the Carribbean and South America.

There was a Spanish colony established in 1526 in South Carolina, San Miguel de Gualdape, built in today’s South Carolina (possibly Georgia -- the exact location remains obscured) by African slave labor. The colony was abandoned the following year after a slave revolt. Another, more permanent colony was established in Florida in 1565 -- Saint Augustine.

So, when the burgesses who ruled the Virginia colony sentenced John Punch to indentured servitude in perpetuity, they sentenced him to a form of chattel slavery that already existed in the New World -- even in what would become the United States. He was not the first slave in America -- merely the first slave owned by the English.

https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/147607

FISH STICKS! Yeah Trump is serving the Russians on this too.

How Trump's trade war kept Russian fish sticks in US school lunchrooms

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/07/politics/russian-fish-sticks/index.html

Washington (CNN)A trade decision by the Trump administration has inadvertently protected a price advantage enjoyed by Russian-caught fish sold in the US, much of which ends up in fish sticks served to American school children.

For years, Alaskan fishermen have been frustrated by foreign competition from Russia, particularly in the lucrative pollock market. Caught in Russian waters, this cold-water cousin of the cod is processed in China before being sold in the US for use in frozen and breaded fish products, as well as imitation crab meat.

Russian pollock costs less than its US-caught equivalent. That's helped it gain share of the roughly $200 million US market for frozen pollock, to the point that by 2017, about half the fish sticks served in US school cafeterias were made from fish caught in Russia and pumped with additives in China, according to the Genuine Alaska Pollock Producers, a trade group that represents 14 different seafood companies.

Neither US Foods nor Sysco, two of the largest food services companies in the United States, responded directly to questions about whether they provide Russian-caught pollock to school lunch programs.

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I wanted to post this pic and figured I'd DUal purpose this thread