They come at you hammer and tong, do they not?
Messing with unions in Madison is like messing with Notre Dame football in South Bend. Think twice, no matter how many votes you got in the last election.
These folks don’t give a hoot about no stinkin’ election but truly believe that democracy has its limits.
Action in the streets and in the capitol are what does it. Brown shirts help but are not always necessary. In the case of Wis. Gov. Walker eating out, all you have to do is boo.
. . . . not so much about saving Wisconsin [& Indiana &
Ohio] fiscally. (Heads are not the story, but they proclaim it, do they not?)
February 26, 2011 …socks, clutching a toothbrush. Protesters of a proposal that would defang public…dozens, scores and even hundreds of protesters have bunked overnight in the 94-year…that has lured hundreds of thousands of protesters. Unlike some causes, such as wars…
By Dan Hinkel
February 24, 2011 …legislators will return. The crowd of union protesters in the Capitol building appeared somewhat smaller…committee. michael.muskal@latimes.com dan.hinkel@tribune.com Hinkel, a staff writer for the Chicago Tribune …
By Dan Hinkel and Michael Muskal, Los Angeles Times
February 24, 2011 …Unions have flooded state capitals to oppose the legislation. On Wednesday, the Capitol in Indianapolis was swarming with protesters, who chanted, sang, ate pizza donated by well-wishers, and hoisted signs that proclaimed, “Stop corporate greed…
By Abby Sewell and Dan Hinkel
February 22, 2011 …Ohio, an estimated 5,500 protesters stood elbow to elbow in and…as drums and chants from protesters outside echoed through the…winter cold. Among the protesters was Jeri Hendricks, 56…simon@latimes.com Hinkel reported from Madison and…
By Dan Hinkel and Richard Simon, Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times
February 18, 2011 …stick to his guns. “The protesters have every right to be heard…passed out bratwurst. Protesters carried signs, including…Democrats still in hiding, protesters saying they would stay the…riccardi@latimes.com Hinkel reported from Madison, Wis…
By Dan Hinkel and Nicholas Riccardi, Los Angeles Times
February 19, 2011 …Capitol rotunda echoed with drums and chants while pro-labor protesters outside chanted ?Kill the bill.? The tea party-led activists…Andrew Breitbart, as he took the stage before the pro-Walker protesters. ?It?s the battle of our times.? dhinkel@tribune…
By Dan Hinkel, Tribune reporter
February 19, 2011 …crowd of supporters of Walker’s state budget measure. The Capitol rotunda echoed with drums and voices while pro-labor protesters outside chanted, “Kill the bill.” “Tea party” -led activists responded with chants of their own: “Do your job…
By Dan Hinkel, Chicago Tribune
Are there newspaper-reading moments when you’d like to see respect for good-old-fashioned mood?
Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel said Friday hes looking for a partner in reform, and he is heartened if Ald. Edward M. Burke (14th) is prepared to forge that alliance.
No, Fran Spielman, or whoever to whom you call in your stories, he’s looking for a partner and would be heartened if etc. etc. There is more to life than the indicative, is there not?
And I’m saying this even if you, and to some extent I, have a mayor who also is stranger to mood changes:
Im looking for a partner in reform. If hes ready to do that, Im heartened because we must reform. This is the era of reform, Emanuel said.
Your Honor, attention please: if he’s ready (a big if, very big if), you would be heartened etc. etc. It’s in doubt, Your Honor. In a lot of doubt, in fact. Can you respect that (publicly)?
Continuing:
I want to turn the page and usher in that era, and Im pleased that the alderman is gonna be part of that [you don’t know
that, but say it anyhow] because City Council, the mayor, people I appoint must participate [now you’re talking: this is indicative with a dose
of imperative] in the reform and changes necessary to put the city, its economy, its school system and its public safety on a different course.
And if they do not, then what, Your Honor? Wait. Do not tell us. We want to see this thing work out in its own time. There’s this optative mood in Latin, for hoping and wishing. We could try that.
Ald. Burke might cooperate:
Given the crises that Chicago is confronting right now, we dont have the luxury of engaging in those kinds of divisive matters. Weve got to all pull together. We owe it to the people of Chicago” [he says].
Uh-oh. Those kinds of matters, eh? How many kinds would that be, Alderman, and which ones have priority? Listen, there’s one kind of matter that you are talking about, and it’s white-knuckles economic-catastrophe, let’s-not-fall-in-the-lake matter.
Yes, I like that optative for now. It’s the best I can manage.
Hoo-wee, see what happens when you attack unions?
Chicago’s new mayor has big municipal money problems, of course. No kicking can down road can be contemplated.
The changes that Emanuel is likely to pursue could put him on course for conflict with the citys large unionized workforce. The labor unions representing the rank-and-file members of the two biggest components of city government the police and fire departments endorsed Gery Chico over Emanuel, as did the union for city garbage-crew laborers. Emanuel angered them but may have scored points with the broader, tax-paying public with a campaign ad in which he said City Hall is not an employment agency.
I picture him — he’s for hope and change, isn’t he? — calling for major cuts and finding teachers and others lining up outside The Hall for doctors’ permits for missing work, aldermen heading for Michigan City or Evanston, the whole kid and kaboodle (sp?) of labor-union democracy. Fun times ahead as he (we hope) tries to keep Chicago from falling into Lake Michigan.
I don’t believe it. He loses the finance committee chair?
Edward Burke: Daley and Burke were never close friends, but throughout Daleys 22 years in office, the dean of the council maintained great clout and amassed vast wealth with his city-related side work due to a non-aggression pact with the mayor. With Daley retiring, Burke scoffed that Emanuel lacked the right approach to dealing with aldermen and he endorsed Chico. Emanuel responded by threatening to strip Burke of his powerful Finance Committee chairmans job.
I’d put such a change up there with Jane Byrne beating Bilandic in ’79. “You did it, Chicago!” Royko rejoiced, celebrating the machine loss. Snow did it, actually.
What are Aussie priests so mad about?
the lack of consultation [and the] outdated, contrived and less inclusive version that ignores modern English and could further alienate Catholics from the church.
For instance:
* “And with you” becomes “And with your spirit”
* “Peace to his people on earth” becomes “on earth peace to people of good will”
* “We believe” becomes “I believe”
* “of one being with the Father” becomes “consubstantial with the Father”
* “Pray, brethren, that our sacrifice may be acceptable . . . ” becomes “pray . . . that my sacrifice and yours . . . “
* “Lord, I am not worthy to receive you” becomes “Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof”
No wonder “hundreds” are “pretty steamed up” and “at least a dozen” intend to put their rubric where their mouth is. (Won’t do it.) Can you blame them?
Sharia law NOT, says T. More Law Center.
The Thomas More Law Center (TMLC) announced today that the City of Dearborn, its Mayor, John B. OReilly, its Chief of Police, Ronald Haddad, 17 City police officers, and two executives of the American Arab Chamber of Commerce were named as defendants in a ninety-six page federal civil rights lawsuit filed in the Federal District Court in Detroit this morning.
Thou shalt not rule Christian preaching out of order.
I like these people and what they are aiming at, but even if you don’t, you have to admit they are self-propelled:
Thank you to the hundreds of Tea Party Patriots from Chicago and across the state of Illinois who traveled to Madison on Saturday to defend the taxpayers and parents of Wisconsin. We organized car pools, drove our friends and neighbors and paid our own way to get to the rally. We weren’t bused in by Organizing for America, SEIU, or the Democrat National Committee. This is a critical battle in the fight between freedom and big government and it will be repeated in state after state across the country,
they said in an email to supporters. No OFA or DNC support, take note of that. And I hardly think the RNC is in on it either. The latter is largely looking over its shoulder at these people, or running to keep up, which is how it’s supposed to be.
Religious leaders offering sanctuary for Wisconsin Democrats
Leaders include Catholic, Jewish and Protestant faiths
Not kidding. It’s three AP paragraphs out of Madison, tantalizing uninformative. But do you remember when “sanctuary” meant beyond the altar rail for Catholics and the body of the church for Protestants?
Now it’s three hots and a flop for the wretched refuse of the teeming shore of the lake called Michigan and points west.
Wait, BizTimes.com for Milwaukee and SE Wis. has Rev. Jason Coulter, pastor of Ravenswood United Church of Christ in Chicago, and Rabbi Bruce Elder of Congregation Hafaka in Glencoe, Ill. as two of the plucky clergymen.
