UPDATE: Skeleton found - not Jennifer Kesse's remains

News from Orlando:

1. The skeleton did not belong to a homeless person.
2. The person was not a murder victim.
3. Police are notifying relatives.

This rules out the Jennifer Kesse conjecture, but sad news must now go to the true family.

Mother Teresa of Calcutta sacrificed to help the poorest of Calcutta, especially those who would otherwise die alone. She once said,

"I once picked up a woman from a garbage dump and she was burning with fever; she was in her last days and her only lament was: 'My son did this to me.' I begged her: You must forgive your son. In a moment of madness, when he was not himself, he did a thing he regrets. Be a mother to him, forgive him. It took me a long time to make her say: 'I forgive my son.' Just before she died in my arms, she was able to say that with a real forgiveness. She was not concerned that she was dying. The breaking of the heart was that her son did not want her. This is something you and I can understand."

Mother Teresa sets a noble example to follow, for everyone who reads this page.

Required reading for Pres. Obama and the other congressional know-it-alls.

This article should be required reading in the Oval Office and Capitol Hill. Then our wallets could finally rest at night.

Why Government Can't Run a Business By JOHN STEELE GORDON The Wall Street Journal, page A17 May 20, 2009

The Obama administration is bent on becoming a major player in -- if not taking over entirely -- America's health-care, automobile and banking industries. Before that happens, it might be a good idea to look at the government's track record in running economic enterprises. It is terrible. In 1913, for instance, thinking it was being overcharged by the steel companies for armor plate for warships, the federal government decided to build its own plant. It estimated that a plant with a 10,000-ton annual capacity could produce armor plate for only 70% of what the steel companies charged. When the plant was finally finished, however -- three years after World War I had ended -- it was millions over budget and able to produce armor plate only at twice what the steel companies charged. It produced one batch and then shut down, never to reopen.

Other examples include Medicare and the ATT telephone monopoly being taken over by... THE POST OFFICE!

5) Government enterprises are almost always monopolies and thus do not face competition at all. But competition is exactly what makes capitalism so successful an economic system. The lack of it has always doomed socialist economies.

When the federal government nationalized the phone system in 1917, justifying it as a wartime measure that would lower costs, it turned it over to the Post Office to run. (The process was called "postalization," a word that should send shivers down the back of any believer in free markets.) But despite the promise of lower prices, practically the first thing the Post Office did when it took over was . . . raise prices.

So if the politician brainiacs who invented Amtrak, hanging chads and who run the Post Office want to take over ANYTHING else, there is going to be a lot of tortured screaming.