See how reporting is done here on tippy toes, lest people know that this was black on white crime.
Victim’s sister:
“It was the scariest thing I have ever witnessed.” [Ashley] Parker says 20 people, all African American, attacked her brother on the front porch of his home, using “brass buckles, paint cans and anything they could get their hands on.
Police will only say “multiple people” are involved.
The Bishop Jenky sermon/call to arms is video’d and verbalized here, as poached by Orate Fratres from a leftist site that wants to capitalize on it as episcopal politicizing, nasty talk, etc.
A key quote is featured:
The Church survived barbarian invasions. The Church survived wave after wave of Jihads. The Church survived the age of revolution. The Church survived Nazism and Communism. And in the power of the resurrection, the Church will survive the hatred of Hollywood, the malice of the media, and the mendacious wickedness of the abortion industry. The Church will survive the entrenched corruption and sheer incompetence of our Illinois state government, and even the calculated disdain of the President of the United States, his appointed bureaucrats in HHS, and of the current majority of the federal Senate.”
The call to political arms is clear enough, and not new, in view of the importance stated by many bishops of the abortion issue:
This fall, every practicing Catholic must vote, and must vote their Catholic consciences, or by the following fall our Catholic schools, our Catholic hospitals, our Catholic Newman Centers, all our public ministries only excepting our church buildings could easily be shut down. Because no Catholic institution, under any circumstance, can ever cooperate with the instrinsic evil of killing innocent human life in the womb. No Catholic ministry and yes, Mr. President, for Catholics our schools and hospitals are ministries can remain faithful to the Lordship of the Risen Christ and to his glorious Gospel of Life if they are forced to pay for abortions.
Note the abortion emphasis. The HHS mandate (Thou shalt do this, under pain of . . . ) also calls for insurance coverage of morning-after pills, of course; but this is little noted and rarely remembered in reportage of the mandate.
Likewise underplayed or omitted is the religious freedom issue. First they came for the Socialists, etc.? — the Hitler-era sequence meant to alert others to their danger from arbitrary imposition of laws and regulations? Let’s see . . . A war on circumcision, the anti-mohel mandate?
Nah. It can’t happen here.
Are you sure?
Sen . Joe Manchin not sure he will vote for Obama in November. “Some real differences,” he says. With Romney too. But WV climate is pushing him to or towards apostasy. He’s a former governor, knows the state as well as anyone else.
The black-on-white hate crime with which an Oak Park man is charged was committed in the village’s NW quadrant, its most affluent, and the offender has a NW quadrant address, Fox-Chicago reports, using a fuller, updated Sun-Times Media account that gives this info:
Alton L. Hayes III, of 1233 N. Woodbine Ave., was allegedly one of two people who attacked a man walking on the 600 block of North Kenilworth Avenue at 12:45 a.m. Tuesday.
The address is for a single family home, 2195 square feet, with 2 1/2 baths, price estimated by Zillow at $487,000. Nice digs.
On the Today Show, Trayvon Martin’s mother called the shooting of Trayvon an accident:
One of the things that I still believe in, a person should apologize when they are actually remorseful for what theyve done. I believe it was an accident. I believe that it just got out of control and he couldnt turn the clock back. I would ask him, did he know that that was a minor, that that was a teenager, and that he did not have a weapon?
Which is what he said later at his bond hearing:
“I am sorry for the loss of your son,” he said. “I did not know how old he was. I thought he was a little bit younger than I am. And I did not know if he was armed or not.”
I hear you, he was telling the mother. Dr. Boyce Watkins, at KultureKritic.com, is not amused:
I havent spoken with Al Sharpton in a few months. But if we were still speaking and he were to ask me what to do with the mother of Trayvon Martin, my answer would be very simple: Get her off the stage right now.
It hurts the case, yes, but at least as important, it takes from the narrative, does it not? He says the same thing at Huff Post.
Meanwhile, Martins mother raised eyebrows with her own comments on Today about the accidental nature of the case, but she clarified what she meant in another interview later in the day. Sybrina Fulton told The Associated Press that she was referring to the chance encounter between Zimmerman and her son.
Their meeting was the accident, Fulton said. That was the accident. Not the actual act of him shooting him. That was murder … They were never supposed to meet.
Yet and still, we still have the revealing response from the good doctor.
Later:
Yet another yet-and-still notification:
This is a redundant conversational convention. As both adverbs have the same meaning, you only need one.
Yet and still, he did not change his ways.
Yet he did not change his ways.
Still he did not change his ways
Personally, it’s something I picked up in civil rights and related gatherings of the 60s. A black usage, I presumed and stillpresume.
Have a look at Dennis Byrne’s takedown of Martin Marty, who unfortunately questions Byrne’s knowledge of and dedication to Catholic principles.
Nicely done, especially when he gets to the part about questioning one’s Christianity because he likes not a government program.
It is not a necessary part of church teachings that commitment to the common good requires the support of this or that government program that addresses societal needs. Christ’s directives to do good can be applied through other means than government programs.
. . . .
At base, Martin’s perspective is a typical slander made against people who feel as I do. Because we do not support a particular government program, we are accused of having no compassion or caring for the downtrodden or even the “undeserving.”
Yes, Marty, there are Christian (even Catholic) conservatives.
Nice handling of the Zorn-man of Chi Trib.
Hopium springs eternal, and thanx to Zorn for answer my unspoken questions of what makes Obama lovers tick and what do they think of the national debt.
And lovers is not too strong a word. How else continue with the hopium?
via STANLEY: MSNBC blacklists Buchanan – Washington Times.
Colleagues liked him:
“Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough said all his liberal interns would cringe when told they would be meeting Pat Buchanan. “They’d say, ‘Isn’t he an awful person? He’s so right-wing.’ But after a couple of days with him, they’d all want to adopt him as their father.”
Mr. Buchanan also was instrumental in advancing Rachel Maddow’s television career. She was a guest on a show Mr. Buchanan hosted, and he liked her so much that he recommended her for more work. Nowadays, she calls him “Uncle Pat.” It’s no exaggeration to say Mr. Buchanan was part of the MSNBC “family.”
But he did not fit the plan:
MSNBC is trying to establish itself as 100 percent liberal in an effort to corner the left-wing market, and [pressure group] Color of Change’s campaign threatened to tarnish that new image. Ordinarily, Mr. Buchanan would lobby and smooth his way out of the trouble that a book such as “Suicide of a Superpower” brought him. But he fell ill over Christmas and was unable to mount a fight back.
Not a good idea, says this writer:
Many commentators have expressed horror at MSNBC’s capitulation to extortion, but they miss the point that the capitulation came so easily because it suits the network’s effort to monopolize liberal viewership. This development is bad for American democracy, for it will create a bifurcated media within which left and right increasingly have no dialogue on the same TV station and, thus, no idea what each other is thinking.
The refusal by liberal outlets to air conservative views leads inexorably to myopic journalism that is cut off from mainstream opinion. Pat Buchanan will survive his ouster, but the quality of MSNBC’s output will take a terrible hit. Extreme liberals may rejoice, but the rest of us will be changing the channel.
If we hadn’t already, though it is interesting, with a flick of the thumb, to see what the other one-tenth thinks.
First Amendment here? Proposal Would Limit Protests in Council Chambers – Chicago News Cooperative.
But what of the principle that says you can swing your arm at will, but not when it comes in contact with someone else’s nose?
In this case legislators conduct business but do not deserve dead air around them while doing so?
And what if not a cute diversion is Chi News Co-op’s reminding us that co-sponsor Mell stood on his desk “infamously” in the 80s? Couldn’t resist it, apparently. The co-op, I mean.
Blithe Spirit 