Late Night Work...and a Breaking Story

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Today I continued to work away on fundraising for CNA. I'm making a lot of progress and learning a lot about how foundations operate, who they give money to, and what patterns they demonstrate. It's a bit time intensive, but considering the economic situation we're in, vital to the ongoing viable of CNA.

During lunch I was finally feeling 100% healed from my bout of illness. Because I was so focused on my work today, time kind of slipped away and I didn't get out of the office for lunch until after 1pm. It had been a good 48 hours since my last full meal and I was famished! Jose, my roommate, and I took off to my favorite restaurant and filled up on a 3 course meal (for only $3.30! yes, I'm still amazed at the prices for food here!).

After the fundraising internet database decided to prematurely shut down for the day, I decided to shift my focus to catching up on my news for the day.

At around 6pm my boss yelled, "Holy cooowwww!" and excitedly started typing away at his desk next to mine. I've become used to his animated ways, so I just continued to work away at my desk until he shot me an instant message about a big bust in Columbus, OH. Eric McFadden, the former Director of Faith Based Initiatives for the Democratic Gov. of Ohio, Chief Catholic honcho for Hillary Clinton's campaign, and big time Obama supporter, was busted for running an underground prostitution ring.

My boss needed a picture of this guy for the story we were running on him. So I jumped into action and started searching the net for a picture, a bio, and anything I could find on him. Through the course of 2 hours, we unraveled what was a tangled web of online coded prostitution. We uncovered what looked like jibberish. A combination of some computer language, an asian language, english, and a system of numbers.

After analyzing this for about 10 minutes, it was clear to me that a code was embeded, it wasn't just jibberish or computer code. There were real names, addresses, and descriptions about what type of sexual favors these women would perform. He used this code to solicit sex on Craigslist.

Reflecting on this guy's background, interviews, and experience, it was clear that he was a very militaristic liberal who seemed to be using his faith as a springboard to political success. It's sad to think that anybody can call themself a Catholic, a Luthern, a Muslim, a Jew and leverage that associate for their own good. The result is that it underminds the true faith of the religion they claim to be a part of and gives another excuse for those who do not believe to say, "see, that's why I'm not religious."

Very sad. I'm not sure how somebody can spend so much time working in the public sphere, preaching about the Common Good and then go home and lead people into sexual slavery.

Let's pray for Mr. McFadden and all those out there who have fallen into such terrible straights. Let's also work to make sure that the McFadden's of the world get the help they need and take them away from any opportunity to do others, and themselves, any harm.