Day: February 23, 2011

When aldermen head for Cal City

Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. Mt. Baldy, M...
City council could flee to the dunes.

Chicago’s new mayor has big municipal money problems, of course. No kicking can down road can be contemplated.

The changes that Emanuel is likely to pursue could put him on course for conflict with the citys large unionized workforce. The labor unions representing the rank-and-file members of the two biggest components of city government the police and fire departments endorsed Gery Chico over Emanuel, as did the union for city garbage-crew laborers. Emanuel angered them but may have scored points with the broader, tax-paying public with a campaign ad in which he said City Hall is not an employment agency.

I picture him — he’s for hope and change, isn’t he? — calling for major cuts and finding teachers and others lining up outside The Hall for doctors’ permits for missing work, aldermen heading for Michigan City or Evanston, the whole kid and kaboodle (sp?) of labor-union democracy. Fun times ahead as he (we hope) tries to keep Chicago from falling into Lake Michigan.

Eddie Burke, where you gonna live?

A Critical Mass gathering on the Daley Plaza, ...
Will he bicycle to work?

I don’t believe it. He loses the finance committee chair?

Edward Burke: Daley and Burke were never close friends, but throughout Daleys 22 years in office, the dean of the council maintained great clout and amassed vast wealth with his city-related side work due to a non-aggression pact with the mayor. With Daley retiring, Burke scoffed that Emanuel lacked the right approach to dealing with aldermen and he endorsed Chico. Emanuel responded by threatening to strip Burke of his powerful Finance Committee chairmans job.

I’d put such a change up there with Jane Byrne beating Bilandic in ’79. “You did it, Chicago!” Royko rejoiced, celebrating the machine loss. Snow did it, actually.

Down with new mass, say down-under priests

SJSA Grade Six - The Year I Rebelled
In 1952 they didn't talk that way.

What are Aussie priests so mad about?

the lack of consultation [and the] outdated, contrived and less inclusive version that ignores modern English and could further alienate Catholics from the church.

For instance:

* “And with you” becomes “And with your spirit”

* “Peace to his people on earth” becomes “on earth peace to people of good will”

* “We believe” becomes “I believe”

* “of one being with the Father” becomes “consubstantial with the Father”

* “Pray, brethren, that our sacrifice may be acceptable . . . ” becomes “pray . . . that my sacrifice and yours . . . “

* “Lord, I am not worthy to receive you” becomes “Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof”

No wonder “hundreds” are “pretty steamed up” and “at least a dozen” intend to put their rubric where their mouth is. (Won’t do it.) Can you blame them?

Arrest those people, they offend me

Picture of Billboard put up by the United Amer...
Huh!

Sharia law NOT, says T. More Law Center.

The Thomas More Law Center (TMLC) announced today that the City of Dearborn, its Mayor, John B. OReilly, its Chief of Police, Ronald Haddad, 17 City police officers, and two executives of the American Arab Chamber of Commerce were named as defendants in a ninety-six page federal civil rights lawsuit filed in the Federal District Court in Detroit this morning.

Thou shalt not rule Christian preaching out of order.

Not jet-assisted, this takeoff

Early jet plane landing on HMS Illustrious in ...
Wild blue yonder ahead . . .

I like these people and what they are aiming at, but even if you don’t, you have to admit they are self-propelled:

Thank you to the hundreds of Tea Party Patriots from Chicago and across the state of Illinois who traveled to Madison on Saturday to defend the taxpayers and parents of Wisconsin. We organized car pools, drove our friends and neighbors and paid our own way to get to the rally. We weren’t bused in by Organizing for America, SEIU, or the Democrat National Committee. This is a critical battle in the fight between freedom and big government and it will be repeated in state after state across the country,

they said in an email to supporters. No OFA or DNC support, take note of that. And I hardly think the RNC is in on it either. The latter is largely looking over its shoulder at these people, or running to keep up, which is how it’s supposed to be.