Book of Daniel today throws book at Israelites, meaning latter-day Israelites, namely us, for our purposes.  They got the message but ignored it:

We have sinned, been wicked and done evil;
we have rebelled and departed from your commandments and your laws.

In the 79th Psalm, we ask God not to hold it against us:

Remember not against us the iniquities of the past;
may your compassion quickly come to us,
for we are brought very low.

Luke 6 has the answer:

“Stop judging and you will not be judged.
Stop condemning and you will not be condemned.
Forgive and you will be forgiven. . . . “

That’s the ticket.

J. Kass and I both want to know who tipped Baltimore Sun/Chi Trib off to O’Bama’s ancestors as slave-owners.  A thought for the newspaper and other media mavens: What if newsies regularly said who suggested this or that story?  That way, we readers would know whom they are talking to.  We can guess, of course, but newsies would gain credibility if they spilled these beans.

Another thing, why does neither Trib nor Sun-Times say what kind of gangs these are whose members stabbed and beat up the off-duty cop on Lincoln Ave. at 4 a.m. — Puerto Rican probably, but why don’t they tell us? 

Also, notice that all eyes are on the cop, as to his behavior in the beating: how did his gun go off, for instance?  (As he fell, stabbed.)  But nothing about his dereliction of duty in not sticking its barrel into the mouth of the nearest punk as he and friends barbarously confronted him and his friends?  We know why: the cop has to be nicey-nice and must not unduly intimidate the barbarous gang members.  Of course.

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From Reader Nancy:

Most likely the violent gang members are illegals.

Yet later: Probably NOT.  See NOT Puerto Rican gangsters! above.

The Discovery Channel’s hot video about Jesus’ tomb (and his wife Mary’s and their kids’) “makes a great story for a TV film. But it’s completely impossible. It’s nonsense,” Professor Amos Kloner of Bar Ilan University, who oversaw the original archeological dig 27 years ago, told the Jerusalem Post.

Galilee people like Jesus didn’t have family tombs in Jerusalem, for one thing.  the names are common and not conclusive, for another:

It would be like finding a tomb with the name “George” on it in the future and people asserting that it must have been the tomb of President George Bush,

Hebrew University archeologist and epigraphist Leah DiSegni told Cybercast News.

Is this a surprise?  Al Gore’s mansion in Nashville TN

“consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year,”

says Tennessee Center for Policy Research.

“Schwarzenegger preaches bipartisanship,” reports The Hill:

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) said Monday that business in Washington is too often conducted with an eye toward political advantage and not to the benefit of the country.

Oh? 

“Division is what Washington has come to represent,” said Schwarzenegger, who is in D.C. to participate in a meeting of the National Governors Association. “For too long, this town has been about: Divide and conquer. Find an issue that splits our country in half, then crack it just enough so you can come out ahead. ‘I have 51 percent, you have 49 percent; I win, you lose.’

Has he ever heard of Andrew Jackson?

“But something larger gets lost in the process,” Schwarzenegger, speaking at the National Press Club, added. “That is the public’s trust, the public’s respect and the public’s faith in government.”

He means some people win elections, some lose.  Get a life, Arnold!

— A non-paid message from your ChiNewsp blogger, who endorses it, figuring why not? It’s from the heart. —

OP Trustee Marsey thinks OP is not a developer and does not belong in “complex and constricting” real estate transactions.  He’s clearly a bomb-thrower.  Everyone knows the village is a developer. 
He also wants competitive bidding on projects and wants the village to pony up only small amounts and then only for public infrastructure.  The village can’t afford any more than that and loses its way when it tries, he says.
He knows more about it than I do.  So do others, who disagree with him.  But philosophically, he has it right.
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To which opposition-party-candidate Jon Hale responds by email the next day that Marsey’s is a “naive view.”  Suburban-downtown redevelopment won’t happen “without local government playing a key role” that might go beyond Marsey’s “small amounts for public infrastructure,” he says.  Bigger projects sometimes require “combining . . . parcels,” which is where the village comes in. 
Without that, you have “parcel by parcel” development — “new buildings built . . . under existing zoning.  In other words, let the free market reign” as the village stands by and watches construction of “$750,000 townhomes and fast-food joints on Madison St.” 
Consistency with master plans is what his slate promises, ever “justified on an return on investment (ROI) basis.”  Complex as it may be, the board cannot dodge its responsibility to direct economic redevelopment, he says.
More to come on this local-regional-national issue . . .