The good and the bad, emphasis on Trib and Sun-Times
Obama’s people nails this conservative as felon, but . . .
Straw-donor cases have been brought against prominnent individuals from time to time. For example, in 2011, a prominent Los Angeles attorney, Pierce O’Donnell, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor chargest of making $20,000 in donations to the presidential campaign of former Sen. John Edwards and reimbursing straw donors.
His people have these lists . . .
To the ChiTrib writer this morning, I said standards for expelling administrators involved in scandals are not very high. Now and then an impeachment but rarely. Rascals are re-elected even when all the newspapers have exposed them. Captains of industry are forgiven much if they do well otherwise. The long arm of the law manages most consistently, and then not always, to force the issue.
This I have come up with mostly after our interview, but I did make my main point, that current standards in politics and business are not violated when Catholic cardinals do not or are not forced to resign in the wake of scandals such as the current child-abuse scandal.
I should add that the possibility or advisability of same had not crossed my mind before the writer brought it up.
Do not google the pope or set up a google alert on him if you have something else you want to do that day, assuming you pay attention to our google alerts.
The fellow is a magnet.
Wed. Journal’s Ken Trainor unloaded the other day on an adversary who does not have 1,000 words of newspaper space at his disposal, piling on. No fair.
The adversary, who was nowhere near a household word before Trainor’s column, inched toward that eminence when his name was blazoned in Trainor’s headline, “Will the real Ray Simpson show up?”
A hammer was used for the fly on baby’s nose: Hammer-wielder Trainor (call him the Hammer) got pissed off at an online comment, and out came the thousand-plus words with their in-our-faces headline. This will teach a reader not to provoke him.
The reader in this case — you could be next, whoever you are — is a hothead online but he’s also schizoid: At meetings he and Trainor attended for 11 months, he “was soft-spoken, intelligent, and [apparently] a reasonable human being.” Doctor Jekyll.
Online, however, he hides behind…
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Don’t become a sourpuss, advised Pope Francis:
85. One of the more serious temptations
which stifles boldness and zeal is a defeatism
which turns us into querulous and disillusioned
pessimists, sourpusses. Nobody can go off
to battle unless he is fully convinced of victo-
ry beforehand. If we start without confidence,
we have already lost half the battle and we bury
our talents.
We do it half-heartedly.
March on, Jesus told the world’s greatest evangelizer, Paul:
While painfully aware of our own
frailties, we have to march on without giving in,
keeping in mind what the Lord said to Saint Paul:
My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is
made perfect in weakness (2 Cor 12:9).Christian triumph is always a cross, yet a cross which
is at the same time a victorious banner borne
with aggressive tenderness against the assaults of
evil.
Ne illegitimis carborundum, which is…
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How Chicago Catholics are asked to commemorate Martin Luther King on his day:
As people of faith we are called to shape the world according to the Good News. The gospel vision for the world is one of justice and peace for all of Gods creation.
In this life? Really?
But, that vision will not happen unless we, the faithful, organize to make it happen. That is why OCJ is taking action on our faith values. On January 19th at St. Michael the Archangel Church in South Chicago we are joining IIRON in taking action for racial, economic and environmental justice.
Organize. Make it happen. Taking action. IIRON? (See here.)
Issues on the agenda will include:
Option for the Poor and Vulnerable by ensuring large corporations contribute their fair share in taxes to the city of Chicago and State of Illinois so we can stop cutting services and…
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That be Jan. 19, with its menu featuring Rev. (uh-huh) Jesse Jackson Sr. on poverty, Gov. Quinn on justice for all, and a March for Life in the Loop — all of it competing, alas, with Patriots v. Broncos at 2 p.m. but not, thank heaven, 49ers v. Seahawks at 5:30.
I myself, choosing the march — would’nt it be nice to have Rev. J. and Gov. Q marching along with us? heh — have been advised to record the 2 pm game. What? so I can watch it play for play, knowing who won? No thanks. A missed game, with all its glorious free-market uncertainties (winner take all, for instance, survival of the fittest) is gone, not to be retrieved.
Same goes for Rev. J. and Gov. Q., of course. I had both penciled in, by the way, before deciding as I did. Rev. J. is at the Sankofa…
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Mr. Springsteen is as the world knows the object of much slobbering devotion among his fans, including, to put it mildly, the governor—Mr. Christie was moved to tears when Mr. Springsteen embraced him after Hurricane Sandy. Perhaps it was the tension of the emergency—one would prefer to think so.
However:
Mr. Springsteen, a man marinated in the oils of left-liberal passion for as long as anyone can remember, delivered—along with the show’s host—a bellowing indictment, titled “Governor Christie Traffic Jam,” sung to the tune of a few of his more famous works. It was a crude job of an assault, nothing surprising.
Ah Christie, Bruce might have sung, we hardly knew ye . . .
Little as this moment may be, it should serve as a reminder to Mr. Christie that there is in life—especially the life of a political leader—no such thing as happy relations with everybody on every side, including those who want you and all your kind dead—politically and sometimes literally. So it ends up that the governor needn’t give up on that ardor for Mr. Springsteen. The singer did after all, if inadvertently, deliver a message that should be of considerable value to Mr. Christie as he begins his adventure in national politics.
Yes. Hope and change can be on their way.
After 26 weeks of eager anticipation, it was reported today that hundreds of millions of Catholics from across the Christian West began preparations for this week’s long-awaited celebration of the 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time.
“Really, outside of Christmas and Easter…and the feasts of the Assumption, Ascension, All Saint’s Day, Immaculate Conception, Ash Wednesday, Palm Sunday, Holy Thursday, and Good Friday, there’s really not a more exciting Sunday for a Catholic,” creator of the popular Catholicism series, Father Robert Barron, told EOTT.
And count on it: the secular media will ignore it.
Blithe Spirit 