Guantanamo

Berger's Beat
February 22, 2016

http://bergersbeat.com/guatanamo/

JUST IN: It costs $4.4 million a year for each of the 91 war-on-terror detainees at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, That covers the 2,000 troops and civilians stationed there to staff the prison and court.

What? You missed the lecture by David Axelrod at WashU? The former Obama campaign director discussed the “Yes We Can” program as well as his life in politics before an audience of 500.

STAN HERZOG, WHO?

He’s the chairman and CEO of Herzog Companies, Inc. of St. Joseph, MO and major contributor to Super PAC Courageous Conservatives. The group’s January fundraising report shows that Herzog is a member and pushed aside Donald Trump in favor of Ted Cruz.

A PRIEST WHO WORKED IN MANCHESTER AND GLENCOE with fellow clerics Gerard Welsch, Robert Schwaig, Larry Damato and Edmund Griesedieck has passed away. He’s Fr. Carl F. Peltz who was sued for allegedly forcing a 12 year-old boy to drink whiskey and raping him on a Navy base in Iceland. The case was settled for $25k and the priest kept working until 2009. Peltz also spent time at a treatment center for sexually troubled clerics called the Vianney Renewal Center in Dittmer.