It’s a phrase that comes trippingly off her tongue. Did she say, “My bad”?
Month: April 2013
Current TV officially becomes ‘Al Jazeera America,’ poaches Ali Velshi from CNN
GWU’s Newman Center fights back against effort to throw priest off campus
Mo Dowd’s extreme misapprension about the court
She gives classic response to its role, to interpret laws per the Constitution, missing it completely.
Im worried about how the justices can properly debate same-sex marriage when some dont even seem to realize that most Americans use the word gay now instead of homosexual; when Chief Justice John Roberts thinks gays are merely concerned with marriage as a desirable label, and when Justice Samuel Alito compares gay marriage to cellphones.
In this she is typical. It’s just that she so vividly exemplifies the wishy-washy thinking of the pop intelligentsia, the nation’s opinion-influencers, if not -makers.
Oak Park MD off to do abortions in Wichita
She is Cheryl Chastine, currently practicing at Total Wellness Inc., 917 S. Oak Park Ave. She is to “provide abortions at South Wind Womens Center, a proposed new abortion clinic located in George Tillers former abortion building on East Kellogg,” says Operation Rescue.
Highly suspicious, they say:
In what appears to be a bait and switch tactic, Chastine has filed to open a Professional Association under the name Wichita Medical Center at the same address as the proposed South Wind Womens Center, operated by former Tiller lobbyist Julie Burkhart, who has no medical license or training.
Kansas law requires that clinics that provide medical services be owned by licensed providers. (K.S.A. 17-2706)
It appears that there will be a public name for clinic and a secret name under which Chastine and perhaps others will operate, said Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue and Pro-Life Nation. This raises legal questions that we are now exploring. The whole thing is less than above board, to say the least.
Chastine would commute to Wichita, continuing her non-abortion practice in Oak Park, according to Operation Rescue, an anti-abortion group.
Jesuit pope no singa the mass
Of course not. Jesuits don’t sing:
The spokesman recently joked that there was a saying about Jesuits, that a Jesuit “‘nec rubricat, nec cantat,’ meaning Jesuits are famed for not being enthusiastic about liturgical song or experts in detailed liturgical rubrics.”
Yes. “As confused as a Jesuit in Holy Week” was another saying, Holy Week being a time of complicated and extended worship services.
Sneed’s ms. as good as a smile
Michael Sneed, female columnist, tells NY archdiocese p.r. man to “check [his] facts” after he refers to her as Mister Sneed.
She had suggested NY Cardinal Dolan had simply copied the pope when he visited prisoners.
The p.r. man said it’s been standard practice for Card. Dolan.
“Check your facts,” said Ms. Sneed, attempting to make silk purse out of sow’s ear, that is, her jumping to a cute conclusion.
Gun laws? Oh?
Question arises: Why are gun laws not enforced in Chicago, where gun violence is a household word?
Answer suggests itself: Because these laws are not enforceable.
No more than anti-beer and -liquor laws were enforceable during Prohibition.
Question: Why limit this to Chicago?
Answer: I do not know.
In the last full week of the campaign for Oak Park village board president, candidate Anan Abu-Taleb comes on hard:
Abu-Taleb argued that at the heart of many village problems is an insular candidate slating process that excludes most citizens. “Candidates for the (Village Manager’s Association) pledge their allegiance to a party and not to the community,” he said.
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“If I wasn’t running, there’d be no talk of our financial condition, of the structural deficit,” he said. “I’m saying we have to do something now. We need to change before we’re forced to change.”
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“The issues are the financial issues, the debt, the empty store fronts. Those issues are directly threatening the base this community is built on,” he said.“Our government is indifferent, we think we’re better than others,” he said, calling that a mistake.
“We’re good. We’re not better than…
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Hedges vs. Abu-Taleg March 14, Buzz Cafe — Oak Leaves story
This blog missed the March 14 forum at the Buzz Cafe, and so turns to the Oak Leaves account, which features sharp disagreement between presidential candidate Anan Abu-Taleb and two incumbent trustees seeking re-election on a slate headed by his opponent for president, John Hedges, a veteran in Oak Park politics and civic administration.
It was about experience as needed for a board president.
Abu-Taleb: “The experience on the board today, a lot of it is really theoretical, and almost like an academic experiment at times. I would bring practical experience and a new way of thinking that challenges assumptions on how to make policies and to ask questions.”
Colette Lueck, incumbent trustee running for reelection: “I bring real experience.” What’s more, Abu-Taleb, longtime entrepreneur and restaurant-owner with a U. of Chicago MBA, will have to learn from them; and it is his responsibility to learn, not theirs to teach. “That’s in…
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Blithe Spirit 