Month: December 2010

McGuire loses again

Donald McGuire, ex-SJ, loses his [court] appeal:

CHICAGO (AP) A federal appeals court has upheld the conviction of a Jesuit priest on charges he traveled abroad and across state lines to have sex with a teenager.
The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago on Thursday rejected Donald McGuire’s argument that, while the sex occurred, sex wasn’t the purpose of the travel.

McGuire is serving a 25-year prison sentence. The 80-year-old has also been convicted in Wisconsin for indecent behavior with a child.

McGuire once commanded a worldwide following as a gifted preacher. And he frequently travelled to retreats.

In a 12-page opinion, Judge Richard Posner concedes statutes indicating sex must be a primary reason for the travel cause confusion. But he writes it’s enough to show McGuire planned trips specifically to improve his chances of having sex.

Eating the rich

Chicago Loop
Loop, where noise was scheduled

Noisemakers for Class Warfare, new group, passed on by Oak Park’s Coalition for Truth & Justice:

To Chicago area progressive [sic] groups:

MoveOn.org is sponsoring a protest rally against keeping the tax cuts for the wealthy this Thursday [today] at noon in the Loop. The idea is to focus on one single concern and make a lot of noise. Protesters are encouraged to bring signs and any implements that will be noisy (metal spoon or beaters with pots and pans, music instruments that can stand the cold, noisemakers, etc.).

. . . . All area groups that are interested are asked to notify as many people as possible, to make this a news event. Nearly 90 groups around the country will be doing the same thing.

The proverbial word to the wise is sufficient, or otherwise translated, Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof.

That can’t be right; later I will look it up. Meanwhile, look for the noisemakers on tonight’s tee-vee.

Liberalism explained

U.S Postage Stamp, 1957
Remove economic freedom, this goes too

Let us now take note of liberals of old vs. those of now, in the words of economist and social philosopher Ludwig von Mises:

“Those who call themselves ‘liberals’ today are asking for policies which are precisely the opposite of those policies which the liberals of the nineteenth century advocated in their liberal programs.

The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment without trial — that all these freedoms can be preserved in the absence of what is called economic freedom.

They do not realize that, in a system where there is no market, where the government directs everything, all those other freedoms are illusory, even if they are made into laws and written up in constitutions.”

Yes. They speak of economic freedom as if it’s on another, parallel track, which it is not.