"Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art."
This is sickening. Dumb mayor (and president plus AG) play to leftist and ethnocentric galleries with bad results for blacks etc.
Police Commissioner Bill Bratton predicted a long, cold war between Mayor Bill de Blasio and the NYPD’s rank and file Sunday, while admitting that morale among cops was so low, the problem could no longer be denied.
Bratton said cops across the country also “feel under attack,” including from “the federal government at the highest levels.”
Can you blame the cops?
"Pope Francis’s edict on climate change will anger deniers and US churches," says left-wing Guardian of England, quoting him:
"In recent months, the pope has argued for a radical new financial and economic system to avoid human inequality and ecological devastation. In October he told a meeting of Latin American and Asian landless peasants and other social movements: “An economic system centred on the god of money needs to plunder nature to sustain the frenetic rhythm of consumption that is inherent to it."
What does he have in mind? something of government control? He’s not big on political freedom, I’d say.
But it’s never been a priority for the Vatican, which has proven it can live with all sorts of autocracies.
Bill Keller with The Marshall Project :
Keller said one of the advantages of doing philanthropic journalism is reporters don’t face the same concerns about whether a story will be popular with a broad audience. There aren’t the same pressures to produce Internet traffic.
Like doing a blog for the hell of it.
http://www.cruxnow.com/church/2014/12/22/pope-francis-risky-lovehate-relationship-with-the-vatican/
“I have to say, I didn’t feel great walking out of that room today,” one senior Vatican official said, who had been in the Vatican’s Sala Clementina for the speech and who spoke on the condition he not be identified. “I understand that the pope wants us to live up to our ideals, but you wonder sometimes if he has anything positive to say about us at all,” the official said, who’s been in Vatican service for more than two decades. For the record, this was an official who describes himself as an “enthusiast” over the direction being set by Pope Francis.
He does let himself go, doesn’t he?
You met the pope before the presentation. What was that like?
It was an awesome experience. I’d heard from people who have been to his private Mass, but you really have to experience the presence of a man of God who’s at the Mass to pray. He’s not concerned about who’s there, but about the Eucharist, and he drew us into prayer.
So important, that “not concerned about who’s there” but praying and drawing others to do so.
See and hear the organizer explaining to his people. Unionism at its meanest best.
Why $15? Because it’s halfway between $10 (“too low”) and $20 (“too high”). Their “scientific” system, he explained, chuckling and drawing laughter from his audience.
