Very much worth reading.

It ain’t.

Thank stringer Ruth Fuller and the Sun-Times desk for not bothering to look this up:

Tio Hardiman, former executive director of the group CeaseFire, also spoke at the gathering Saturday in Zion [to protest killing of 17-year-old by a policeman].

“Every 28 hours, an African American is shot or killed by a police officer in America,” Hardiman said. “Select — not all — police believe they are above the law.”

They could have done so easily, googling “every 28 hours” and finding something viral and false about this claim:

The figure “every 28 hours” comes from an April 2013 report titled “Operation Ghetto Storm” by the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement. The report analyzed officer-involved killings of African-American victims in 2012. The report “is a window offering a cold, hard, and fact-based view into the thinking and practice of a government and a society that will spare no cost to control the lives of Black people,” according to the preface.

However:

It’s not hard to debunk the claims using basic findings and methodologies from the report. (Twitter user @FeministaJones did it in a series of tweets using Storify.)

As for the rest of the debunking, you can look it up. As could Tio Hardiman, Ruth Fuller, and the entire Sun-Times organization, on whom and which, fie!

Cantors at Catholic mass get out of hand sometimes, like the one at a recent mass I attended who sang well as far as I could tell, but alas, sang too loudly (belting it out), too long (every damn verse of whatever it was), and too often (does the cantor have that many openings usually?).

This one almost stole the show, upstaging the altar happenings, quiet prayerful reflection time, and in general forgetting that she is not the star of the event, but supporting case member.

Beautiful sendup of the once world’s biggest village.

Once also the Village of Churches, now known as Berkeley on the Prairie. (As are other left-leaning villages, towns, and cities, in the Midwest)

About this pizza shop in Indiana, center of a homosexual hate storm:

The owners never refused service to gays. They never claimed they’d refuse service to gays. As [Reason.com writer Matt] Welch notes, they said the opposite — they would and do serve gay customers. What they wouldn’t do if asked is cater a gay wedding because their faith tells them that marriage is sacred and reserved for straight couples.

That “thinking,” politely declining to be conscripted by the state into a ceremony that violates one’s religion, no longer has a place in small-town Indiana according to the town’s own senator, who’s more keen to stay on the good side of the left’s gay-marriage mob than defend constituents guilty of nothing more than giving their opinion to a reporter.

Will It Ever End?

They mostly sat this one out.

. . . bad things are on the way. — www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/rahm-emanuel-reelection-chicago-mayor-20150327

Chicago is suffering from a severe fiscal crisis. Like plenty of other municipalities, Chicago lacks the revenue to pay its bills, particularly its pension obligations to city workers.

According to a 2013 Pew report, 61 other U.S. cities face similar difficulties, but Chicago’s situation is one of the worst. “Voters must realize we are facing the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression,” says Roosevelt University’s Paul Green, the doyen of Chicago political experts. “If something doesn’t happen, the city is beyond the abyss.”

Found this Natl. Journal story linked at the indispensible News Alert.— nalert.blogspot.com/2015/03/broken-city-rahm-emanuel-and-unraveling.html

Whoa, as if we don’t have what they just got, that bad old religious freedom thing:

Rahm Emanuel tries to lure firms from Indiana over law that Illinois already has

(AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
WASHINGTON DC (Washington Times) – Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has engaged in some interstate payback by attempting to lure Indiana companies over the state’s newly signed religious-freedom bill, but what he doesn’t mention is that Illinois already has a similar law.
In a Friday letter, Mr. Emanuel cited the Religious Freedom Restoration Act signed by Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as a reason to “look next door to an economy that is moving forward into the 21st century,” referring to Illinois.
“Gov. Pence’s act is wrong. It’s wrong for the people of Indiana, wrong for the individuals who will face new discrimination, and wrong for a state seeking to grow its economy,” said the letter, a copy of which was posted on the Crain’s Chicago Business website.
Mr. Emanuel, a Democrat and former top aide to President Obama, failed to point out that the Illinois Religious Freedom Restoration Act became law in July 1998. What’s more, Indiana Republicans say Mr. Obama voted for the measure as an Illinois state senator.
More HERE

Maybe, hell, that was 1998, this is now?