On the night Trayvon was killed,
Nobody else was there.
Confusion and ignorance about what exactly happened . . .
But
. . . any American with open eyes not just African Americans knows the extent to which young black men in this country are casually assumed to be dangerous troublemakers just for nothing.
Just for walking down the street. Just for wearing a hoodie.
In the same editorial. Casually assumed. For wearing a hoodie. How does S-T know this in view of the confusion and ignorance?
It happened at the June 28 session at Carleton Hotel, a Business & Civic Council production:
State Sen. Don Harmon’s optimism at the Business and Civic Council’s Carleton Hotel session on June 28 has been noted. More can be said. He protested “sky [is] falling” rhetoric about Illinois’ pension problem and praised the legislature for having “cut government to the bone.”
“We can afford” pension payments, he said. “We never missed a payment; we never will.” Here as throughout, he addressed pensioners’ worries but not fiscal problems facing the state as borrower and spender. “It’s a budget issue,” he said, to further calm pensioners’ worries. Indeed, the budget just passed, a “pretty good” one, “pays the pension fully” for the coming year.
He joked at one point. Legislators “kind of solved the pension problem with the 2010 reform” tightening benefits for new hires. “‘Tain’t funny, McGee,” Fibber’s wife Molly used…
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. . . says Sun-Times columnist Mary Mitchell today. Go with that, Mary. We know kids are dying, so enough of weepers (tragic newspaper stories). Instead, get specific. Dare you?
Problem is thoroughly demoralized black community. Terrorized by their own. Turn up heat indeed. Ideas?
Meanwhile, Rahm pushes ban on so-called assault weapons etc. But if our current legislation doesn’t keep guns away from home-grown urban terrorists, why will new ones? Point in much of this seems to be to take guns away from self-defenders.
Meanwhile again, bunch of black guys, not kids, including one very obese adult, take over greensward of Oak Park’s Scoville Park, rush hour yesterday, having a grand old athletic time with touchball — “Go go go, go, Yayyyy!” — safe from gunfire. Yes.
Rahm E. running: Will save $60 mill on new system. Rahm elected: Nope, $18 mill. Show me, says IG, Rahm’s man walks out on meeting. (“And don’t aske me again!” again in effect.
The story, by F. Spielman, is beautifully titled, “Talking trash.” Sun-Times, of course, where Chi gets covered and less is more.
Williams, a former Chi Police Dept. deputy supt, probably a hack (acts like one), wholly reliable as stand-up guy vs. such creatures as IG and anyone else who wants to know things.
IG has also questioned city’s red-(traffic) light candid camera program. Are red-light districts the most dangerous? Have they reduced accidents? Also here: “Move on. Nothing to report here.”
Sheesh. It’s not easy being an IG, who was never promised a rose garden.
Ignatian spirituality begs for more silence, not less
written by Paul , July 03, 2013
“Younger retreatants want shorter retreats with less silence and more interaction…” except Ignatian spirituality works best with more silence. Perhaps the young don’t know what’s ultimately good for them.
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written by Joe Drexler , July 05, 2013I went on my first jesuit retreat when I was 18 years old with my father. My dad told me what to expect, but I still was not prepared for it. I could not believe that no one would talk to each other for days. My first day was an adjustment to say the least. No phones, no tv, no radio, I just about went crazy. The second day, my “will” gave in and I thoroughly enjoyed the rest of the retreat. It is hard to explain, but in the silence we are able to hear the Lord’s voice more clearly. Perhaps it is something that could be left in the retreat but to a lesser degree? Maybe offer the silent retreat as the advanced version once you have drawn the younger crowd in to the center?
In story by Green Bay diocese about revamped Jesuit retreat center in Oshkosh WI.
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