Pope To Pelosi: Life Must Be Protected

AP: The Vatican's attempts to keep the Pelosi visit low-profile displayed its obvious unease with the new U.S. administration. Benedict and Bush had found common ground in opposing abortion, an issue that drew them together despite their differences over the war in Iraq. Wednesday's meeting, in a small room off a Vatican auditorium after the pope's weekly public audience, was closed to reporters and photographers.

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February 19, 2009 at 1:28 am - AP
Dateline: Vatican City

[...] His Holiness took the opportunity to speak of the requirements of the natural moral law and the Chur… [...]

TED KENNEDY   February 19th, 2009 - 2:49 am

I WAS NEVER BIG ON PROTECTING OR SAVING LIFE.

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Eileen for Freedom/Liberty   February 19th, 2009 - 8:40 am

Thank goodness for men of conviction who are no respectors of person and stand with the scriptures on what God says…not what man wants!

Thank you to the Pope for setting Marie Antoinette Pelosi right…wow that is something…I used the word “right” for that looney tunes!

Praise the Lord and pass the altar boy!   February 19th, 2009 - 8:56 am

Clean up your own cage before you start advising others.

Stupid Neocons   February 19th, 2009 - 9:16 am

THE REAL IMPORTANT NEWS NOT EVER SHOWN ON RIGHT WING WACKO SITES AS THIS ONE!! ***********
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Palin owes back taxes on per diem, state says ****************
Oh No! Say it ain’t so Joe, there you go again bygolly!

Sarah Palin…The gift that keeps on giving!
Gov. Sarah Palin must pay income taxes on thousands of dollars in expense money she received while living at her Wasilla home, under a new determination by state officials.
The governor’s office wouldn’t say this week how much she owes in back taxes for meal money, or whether she intends to continue to receive the per diem allowance. As of December, she was still charging the state for meals and incidentals.

“The amount of taxes owed is a private matter,” Sharon Leighow, Palin’s spokeswoman, said in an e-mail. “If the governor collects future per diem, those documents would be a matter of public record.”

The revelation about Palin comes as U.S. senators, including Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, are under scrutiny over back taxes. A survey by the political newspaper and Web site Politico (www.politico.com) found that Begich was one of seven senators who acknowledged having paid back taxes.

Some other state employees also owe back income taxes for travel payments and will be getting revised tax forms, Annette Kreitzer, state administration commissioner, said in an e-mail.

She wouldn’t say which, or how many, employees will be receiving the notifications.

The payments became a touchy issue for Palin last fall when she was running for vice president and campaigned as a budget watchdog.

The Washington Post published a story in mid-September that said she had charged the state almost $17,000 for meals and incidentals while staying in her own home.

The state considers Juneau, where she lives in the Governor’s Mansion, to be Palin’s official duty station.

Palin billed the state for 312 nights spent in her Wasilla home during her first 19 months in office, according to the Washington Post. She received $60 a day tax free, money intended to cover meals and incidentals, while traveling on state business, her travel forms show.

“Last fall we raised questions about longstanding practices within the Department of Administration regarding tax treatment of per diem payments,” Kreitzer wrote in an exchange of e-mails over the past few days with the Daily News.

“At the Governor’s request, we reviewed the situation to determine whether we were in full compliance with the pertinent Internal Revenue Service regulations,” Kreitzer wrote. “As a result of this review, we determined that per diem needs to be treated as income, requiring a revision of W-2 forms for any affected employees.”

The new determination by administration officials won’t affect state lawmakers, said Pam Varni, director of the Legislative Affairs agency.

Under IRS guidelines, legislators receive tax-free payments to help with living expenses while in Juneau for the legislative session — if their home is at least 50 miles away, Varni said.

The current rate, set by the U.S. Department of Defense, is $189 a day. That goes to everyone except the three Juneau-based legislators, who get smaller payments that are taxed as compensation.

Legislators can also charge the state $150 a day for time spent on state business when the Legislature is not in session, but those payments are taxed as income, Varni said.

Begich’s situation came to light through a political survey released last week by Politico about senators and their taxes.

Fifty-five senators, including Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, didn’t answer the questions, and a few others owed money but didn’t consider it “back taxes” for one reason or another.

On his way out of a meeting with veterans on Monday, Begich answered a few questions about the back taxes he paid on a vehicle provided to him by the city when he was mayor.

“I refused the car the first 10 or 12 months,” Begich said. “I didn’t want the car.

“Then they told me I had to have it because of liability and a need and security and blah, blah, blah. So I ended up getting a used car. The first time a mayor has gotten a used car.” It was a former police SUV.

The tax obligation came to his attention in late 2007, as he remembers it, after a regular IRS audit of city issues. The city then sent him revised tax statements.

“They gave me a letter and said you got to pay taxes on it. So they revised my W-2s.” He wouldn’t say how much he owed. “It’s irrelevant,” Begich said.

Generally, people are supposed to pay income taxes on the value of an employer-provided vehicle that is for personal use. Police vehicles are among the exceptions — officers can drive them home and not be taxed on the value of the commute.

There’s no specific exception in the law for mayors or governors. Palin has had a state Chevy Suburban.

Begich said a mayor is always on the job. No other Anchorage mayor ever had to pay income taxes on a city vehicle, he said.

“That’s the point. I’m always on call. Always. … And I think that’s what the city’s view was, for the city manager and me, was that we were always on call,” Begich said. “But the IRS viewed it differently.”

“After that issue came up, I got rid of the car,” Begich said. He was in a downtown parking lot getting into the Toyota Highlander hybrid he bought in late 2007 to replace the city rig.

The Politico story about the survey said his situation echoed that of Tom Daschle, who had to step down as President Barack Obama’s pick for health secretary after revelations about back taxes, including taxes owed for a limo and driver.

“For Politico to say it’s the same as Daschle — that’s bunk,” Begich said.

My goodness… I thought only Democrats picked running mates and cabinet members with tax problems. FIX NOISE and the other right wing mouthpieces got it wrong again. Go figure.

I’m not seeing too many right wingers in defense of Sarah anymore . . . Probably too many facts slapping them in the face. Seems to be nothing more than a Dan Quayle with a pony tail only much more deceiving! And you idiotic right wing wackos thought the public couldn’t see through this B.S. No wonder the Regugs got shellacked in the elections!

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Other   February 19th, 2009 - 11:46 am

“Praise the Lord and pass the altar boy! February 19th, 2009 – 8:56 am

Clean up your own cage before you start advising others.”

Actually the public school system is the largets offender of institutional child molestation. Beats the Catholic Church by x10.

The Pope screwed up by just letting her in the Vatican. He validated her positions on abortion.

Wütender Wikinger   February 19th, 2009 - 1:46 pm

Es schaut zu mir, wie der Papst seine Scheiße zusammen hat. Pelosi ist ein hässlicher alter Schweinhund.

Way to go Pope.

mark   February 19th, 2009 - 2:01 pm

more fetuses = more tasty altar boys

From the NAZI who hid and shuffled pedofiles for the last decade under John Paul. Nice Prada pumps Ratzi, they set off your manly ermine cape and tiara.

mark   February 19th, 2009 - 2:04 pm

Ratzi is pea green with envy, because Nancy holds America’s purse, and it would have gone perfectly with his Red Pradas.

Eagle Eye   February 19th, 2009 - 4:29 pm

now they will never get the smell out of the Vatican

mark   February 19th, 2009 - 5:36 pm

@eagle eye,
The Vatican already reeked of old man stench, with altar boy skid marks on their gowns.

N Waff   February 19th, 2009 - 9:31 pm

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= PELOSI IS JUST AS MUCH CATHOLIC AS
= SHE IS THE POPE
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Jack P   February 20th, 2009 - 3:09 pm

Holy Spirit Smackdown!

Truth clear winner.

Pope 1: Satan’s cronie 0

peter c   February 20th, 2009 - 3:27 pm

To all the Catholic haters who have left vile comments on this page.What a small amount of priests did was let the Evil One come into their souls.Maybe 2% of priests make up these Evil People.
But with your continuation of bashing all Catholics..the Pope etc…you are continuing the work of the Evil One.This is what he wanted from this whole evil priest situation.he is not happy pulling their souls to Hell…he wants ALL our souls.
Pelosi,Kerry,Kennedy,and others are also part of the Evil One’s Plan.They have joined forces with the Anti-Life Evil that abortion really is.They are NOT practicing Catholics.You can’t pick and choose what you want from the church and call yourself a Catholic.You either are a practicing Catholic..or you are just something else.
The Evil part is that instead of just joining a Church that excepts abortion…these people would rather tear down the Catholic Church…lie about it’s history and teachings so they can change morals to fit their lifestyle.
Thank God this Pope is strong.Thank God this Pope stands for truth when it comes to life and unborn children…and thank God he is standing up to these phonies like Pelosi.

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