Category: Blithe Spirit
The good and the bad, emphasis on Trib and Sun-Times
Death of the Impeachment Dream
Lede of the day (week? month? in a long while anyhow):
House Democrats hoped that Wednesday’s hearings would allow them to highlight their favorite portions of the Mueller report for people who haven’t read it.
Democrats didn’t expect this segment of Americans to include the author.
via WSJ
Home Equity Theft: How a Man’s Home Was Seized Over $8.41 in Unpaid Taxes
We’re from the government, we’re here to take your house.
(Apologies to memory of Ronald Reagan.)
Property taxes in Chicago area continue to rise, as does resentment
Politicians can’t afford to ignore growing public resentment of excessive property taxes, a powder keg that needs only a spark to explode into a full-fledged tax revolt with unpredictable consequences.
What did they expect?
Later: Dear old Oak Park has led the way:
For a glimpse of what’s to come for much of metropolitan Chicago, look to west suburban Oak Park, where property tax bills often exceed $10,000 and can range far higher. Home sales in Oak Park fell 22 percent in the first half of 2019, median selling prices dropped nearly 12 percent and houses sat on the market almost 40 percent longer than they did in the first six months of 2018. As Rodkin reported, Oak Park realtors blame sky-high property taxes for sending buyers elsewhere.
Beware.
Chicago aldermen may raise the minimum wage to $15. But with the city’s cost of living, is that even enough ? – Chicago Tribune
There they go again, pushing leftism with alleged news story.
Chi Trib, here with collusion by editors, by one Lolly Bowean.
Onward, peace-loving soldiers . . .
Your marching orders:
“Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when soldiers refuse to fight, when workers refuse to load weapons onto ships and aircraft, when people boycott the economic outposts of Empire that are strung across the globe. ”
― Arundhati Roy, Public Power in the Age of Empire
Typical social justice claptrap.
Che Guevara: If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you…
No thanks.
If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.
Che Guevara
— Jim
Congress Considers Resolution Designating Antifa Terrorists
It is sick, twisted street theater, the ultimate goal of which is the overthrow of an orderly, lawful society.
Operating under “liberal privilege.”
Archbishop Chaput already announcing his impending ouster from the Philadelphian See?
Non-Francis archbishop, coming 75th birthday, prescribed resignation to be affirmed in a New York (sometimes Chicago?) minute . . . Out, out damned critic! (Not that the linked parish bulletin is much of a announcement.)
This is tomorrow’s bulletin from St. Cornelius Catholic Church in Chadds Ford, PA:
I mean, not that I’m surprised. Everyone expects for the noncardinal to have his resignation immediately accepted upon its submission on his 75th birthday in September. Were it to NOT be immediately accepted by the petrine usurper, that would be a real shock.
But you’re really out there front-running it two months beforehand? Has he already been told to pack up his stuff and get back to the reservation? I suppose if you know there will not be a long goodbye, you might as well tailgate the pre-party.
Archbishop Chaput has long been an enigma. Conservative on most things, friendly to Tradition, pretty strong track record in Philly, and in Denver before that. One of the better bishops in the USA, I think would be a safe assessment, if not damning with faint praise.
But then…
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A libertarian rethinks immigration
Instapundit recently linked to an article at the libertarian Reason magazine with a premise I found – considering the authors and the magazine – surprisingly dimwitted.
No, a border wall is not necessarily morally equivalent to the Berlin Wall, or anywhere near it. Consider Hadrian’s Wall, or the Great Wall of China. Sometimes there are actual barbarians on the other side of it.
In this case sneaking in with the good guys?
