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LEC - Yesterday evening, June 26, while watching the CBSevening new with Dan Rather, I was treated to a little(un)intended humor.It seems that Dan was reporting on the recent SupremeCourt decisions of sodomy repeal and retroactive char-ges against Priests for child abuse well beyond the curr-ent statute of limitations. Not exactly my favorite subjects,but that's OK.As you probably know, the sodomy laws remaininghave been negated by the Supreme Court as uncon-stitutional, this was the lead in story. When proceed-ing to the Priest statute story, Dan had intended tosay something like - "to ensure that Priests could nolonger be charged in child abuse cases retroactively".However, either due to a slip on the tongue, someone'smisspelling or attempted humor with prompter copy, Daninadvertently stated...."to ensure that Priests could no longer be charged inchild abuse cases rectalactively".He caught the mistake, but recovering very quickly,seemed not to choose a correction. My wife and Iwere laughing our asses off.What I would have given for a TIVO unit....Thanks - Gary - Dallas Texas
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