Day: January 20, 2015

Rauner vs. the skilled trades. Maybe a problem here.

Pat Hickey fires a shot of warning about Rauner:

Bruce Rauner wants the skilled trades to open up their books to him. Governor Carhartt wants to see how many minorities and veterans are in skilled trades apprenticeship programs.

The Skilled Trades should tell Bruce Rauner to go pound sand.  Governor Rauner wants to measure data, in order to control. Each skilled trade got to where it is today on its own.  Yes, they did build their own success.

The minority-representation thing is worrisome, to be sure.

Pope Francis: Free expression doesn’t mean right to insult others’ faith – CNN.com

​Let us now praise the Pope for making a good point:

There are sins of speech and writing and drawing (and lots of other things one could mention). Not a new point but appropriate in its Charlie Hebdo timing, EXCEPT for its confusing moral with political freedom, two quite different and not in themselves synchronous things.

Freedom of speech as generally if not universally understood refers to POLITICAL not MORAL freedom, which I am sure the Pope realizes. He should make that clear and not confuse matters by promoting a moral (personal) obligation rather than a political (governmental) requirement.

Lots of immoral things are legal, dear Holy Father. Please, make that distinction next time the spirit moves you. ​

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