Author: Jim Bowman
Jim Bowman covered religion 1968-78 for the Chicago Daily News, since then has written books, articles, etc., mostly on corporate history but also on religion (Company Man: My Jesuit Life, 1950-1968), and more recently on politics (Illinois Blues: How the Ruling Party Talks to Voters -- Lulu.com, Kindle). Longtime Oak Park, Illinois, resident, he lives now on Chicago's North Side, where four of his and Winnie's six children live close by.
Fauci gushing over Hillary after her “What difference does it make” Benghazi hearing in 2013: “We all love her and are very proud to know her”
Fauci fawned. To her secretary, love and (all but) kisses:
Anyone who had any doubts about the Secretary’s stamina and capability following her illness had those doubts washed away by today’s performance before the Senate and the House. She faced extremely difficult circumstances at the Hearings and still she hit it right out of the park. Please tell her that we all love her and are very proud to know her.
Gosh.
RACIST: BLACK PEOPLE CAN’T SPEAK PROPER ENGLISH. WOKE: BLACK PEOPLE CAN’T SPEAK PROPER ENGLISH. …
Rutgers go blahhhh . . .
Shootings Spike in Poorest Neighborhoods When Cops Pull Back
Of course.
Fewer cops, more crime. Is that hard to understand?
New York City needs more arrests. More arrests in the subways. More arrests in housing projects. More drug arrests. More arrests of gang members.
And it isn’t alone.
If there’s one lesson from the unrest and anti-police agitation in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, it’s that poor minorities living in distressed neighborhoods pay the highest price — in fear and in blood — when the cops retreat and the worst elements feel emboldened.
Open the door, and the flies come in. Screen out the offenders.
Portland Police do not engage crowds during the night
Officer Friendly, blank you!
Call or call out the police?
Dear Oak Park and River Forest,
Another day, another — what? Comings and goings, nothing grand. Clouds on the horizon, last night got stuffy, as July nights do.
Meanwhile, I see that Officer Friendly is on his way to being defunded by at least two school boards. After 21 years. It’s their right, if not their duty, to do so. But let it be known, sure as shootin’ there will be a spike in classroom crime – cheating on tests, copying homework, passing notes, making faces behind teacher’s back, who knows what else? It’s gonna be “Officer Friendly, [blank] you!” time, right out of “West Side Story.”
So it goes. But the casual observer has to wonder. . . .
Wed. Journal of Oak Park and River Forest has it . . .
Trump to send federal forces to more ‘Democrat’ cities – Reuters
State and local leaders in Oregon, as well as members of Congress, have called for Trump to remove Department of Homeland Security secret police forces from Portland, Oregon, after videos showed unidentified federal personnel rounding up people and whisking them away in black minivans.
“Not only do I believe he is breaking the law, but he is also endangering the lives of Portlanders,” the city’s mayor, Ted Wheeler, tweeted, having previously called the federal presence “political theater” in an election year.
Get the “secret police” too? Not in quotes. Go Reuters.
And what about that mayor? Lives of Portlanders not endangered as matters stand? City up for grabs, and he talks like this. And he is a Democrat, hasn’t just been called one. It’s a matter of public knowledge, though in some quarters that’s not a recommendation.
Byron York’s Daily Memo: The many dangers of voting by mail
Chapter and verse, folks. About the New York fiasco.
More than three weeks after the New York primaries, election officials have not yet counted an untold number of mail-in absentee ballots, leaving numerous closely watched races unresolved, including two key Democratic congressional contests.
The absentee ballot count — greatly inflated this year after the state expanded the vote-by-mail option because of the coronavirus pandemic — has been painstakingly slow, and hard to track, with no running account of the vote totals available.
In some cases, the tiny number of ballots counted has bordered on the absurd: In the 12th Congressional District, where Representative Carolyn B. Maloney is fighting for her political life against her challenger, Suraj Patel, only 800 of some 65,000 absentee ballots had been tabulated as of Wednesday, according to Mr. Patel, though thousands had been disqualified.
From Byron York via email:
People are right to be worried. When someone tells you that voting by mail is nothing to worry about, be skeptical.
Do I worry? Do I give a bag of beans? You can bet your life I do. From the incomparable Ink Spots.
What is herd immunity? And how do we get there on COVID-19?
I’d make the headline something more like this:
Herd immunity: What it is and why it’s a tale told by “idiots” — Three experts on a bad idea
A story in which nobody speaks up for the idea and the reporter produces the simplest of he-said, she-said, leaving us readers mostly in the dark about why the story in the first place.
Simplest as regards the formula, but hard reading — of stuff that would have been best paraphrased by the writer, with key phrases in quotes. It’s his job as middle man and explainer for readers.
Sources are from Northwestern, U. of Chicago (shown at podium next to the mayor), and Johns Hopkins. Usual suspects.
The N.U. man used the “idiots” term in reference to non-specialists who spout off. In answer to a reporter’s question, to be fair.
Thank you, Chi Trib.
WHY DO MAINSTREAM MEDIA IGNORE CHINA’S GENOCIDE?
Hans Bader, writing on Liberty Unyielding, brings together the evidence that the Chinese Communist Party is systematically oppressing three million people, using torture and concentration camps.
Yet when was the last time the New York Times, Washington Post, ABC, NBC or CBS did any investigative reporting on this horrendous abuse of human rights?
I give up. When?
Blithe Spirit 