It’s a tragedy but largely a self-inflicted one. True, the country was ravaged by ISIS for five years but that conflict slowed to a skirmish months ago.
The fact remains that Iraq is a socialist basket case—a disaster of big government, central planning, and “leaders” with sticky fingers.
Yes, yet another socialist basket case among so many that it’s hard to keep up with their number.
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.
Director Quentin Tarantino Refuses to Recut His Newest Film for Chinese Release
How come the Chinese do like they do?
As China continues to make massive inroads into the global economy, they’re going to continue to push their will upon foreign corporations and nations. Among their imperialistic totalitarian prerogatives is to make sure nobody says anything bad about them.
This is why the entire nation of China has had the character of Winnie the Pooh banned just because someone criticized President-for-life Xi Jinping by saying he looked like him.
Money is powerful. Financial pressure is another kind of diplomacy for these people.
“Freedom of speech does not mean that it can be arbitrary nonsense,” says Chinese TV
But it does, Mr. Chinese TV. That’s the difference (in this matter) between you and us. Precisely so.
via Chinese State Television Vows ‘Retribution’ Against N.B.A.’s Adam Silver – The New York Times
Indigenous culture can enrich liturgy, bishop says
“Enhance and enrich,” is it? It’s not enriched enough? Just what those Amazonians are looking for.
Proposals at the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon for indigenous- or Amazonian-rite ceremonies are meant to enhance and enrich the liturgy with cultural signs and gestures, not change what is essential for Catholics, a bishop said.
Popular demand, apparently.
via Catholic Philly
Star of star chamber, Schiff in the basement
Adam Schiff is at it again, tampering with witnesses.
Yesterday, he got caught trying to shove words into a witness’s mouth, to make him say things he didn’t want to say. I wrote about that here.
Today, he’s doing something just as bad, getting together with other witnesses and working out a pre-coordinated story for the coming show trial.
Read more: at American Thinker
CNN’s Zucker, he bad
Condemned!
“I think Jeff Zucker should be fired,” determined Dershowitz of CNN’s president. “He has destroyed CNN. He has made it impossible for people to hear two sides of a view or any side of a view other than Jeff Zucker’s view, and that’s not the way television should operate.”
Too bad.
Oak Park Trustee to White Colleague: ‘You Shouldn’t Have an Opinion… You Have Been White from Birth’ | Trending
Wow. From my old home town Oak Park IL comes “the most racist incident to happen in all of 2019.”
From a wild, wild woman in this amazing display.
I sat through many board and other meetings in the village where I grew up and lived 40-plus years as husband, father, activist, local-paper columnist, etc.
Never saw the likes of this.
From a U. of Illinois Chicago progressor no less. She apologized in that paper afterward, but now what?
Contempt of Congress a crime but . . .
. . . should be an annual awards dinner.
Said Chris Plante the other day. Hear him on Chi WLS 890 a.m. 9 a.m. CDT to 11 (when Rush takes over).
Blogger Dad 29 heard him in July, Me? Just the other day. It’s sort of thing he tosses in during rapid-fire commentary. Quite good.
From Babylon Bee fellow to me . . .
. . . and to you if you show them some love:
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President Xi, basketball star
Out of the Orient a star has risen.
U.S.???The NBA has found itself at odds with its lucrative Chinese market, and the league is doing its best to appease the Chinese government. In a move intended to patch things up with China, the NBA announced that President Xi Jinping has made the All-Star team this year.
The president will tower under the competition at an intimidating 5’11”. Especially threatening to the opposing team will be the president’s ability to imprison or execute any player who dunks on him. He is also expected to execute players on his own team who speak out against him or suggest he’s unfit for the basketball team. . . .
Stunning development.
more more more here.
Blithe Spirit 