Blithe Spirit. . . at Republican conservatives.
Whoa. This is the party, fractured as usual, but it goes deeper than Jim (Got Milk) Oberweis’ maneuverings. It’s the nature of the beast.
Reblogged from Oak Park Newspapers:
. . . Well, its ER expenses have to be very high because of its being cheek by jowl with high-crime Austin neighborhood.
That said, the bad news, from Patch:
Overall, Rush Oak Park Hospital bills Medicare on average less than the U.S. average, while the West Suburban Medical Center bills one to two times more than the U.S. average…
The situation:
There are currently over 600,000 refugees in Kenya’s refugee camps, many of whom are unaccompanied, orphaned and separated refugee girls and single young women without family members. Refugee girls and young women face the highest risks of exploitation, assault, forced marriage, and abuse, resulting in extreme barriers to education, medical care, and employment.
Sara Lind continues:
These are the kind of things I learned when I started volunteering for Heshima Kenya, an organization that specializes in protecting unaccompanied refugee children and youth, especially girls, living in Nairobi, Kenya. As a mother, especially a mother to a daughter, these statistics have more power over me than they once did.
And know that OPRF grad Anne Sweeney co-founded Heshima Kenya and has been its executive director. She and our #2 Son, Peter, tied the marital knot a couple years ago, by the way. He’s put in time at Heshima K, now back at his work as architectural designer, she soon to rejoin him in Chi.
Learn all about Heshima Kenya at its site, http://www.heshimakenya.org/. Follow it on Twitter, https://twitter.com/Heshima_Kenya.
Happy Mother’s day.
Reblogged from Not for Attribution:
New spokeswoman for U.S. bishops put in a few months with Sarah Palin, '09 to '10 as an advisor. Hackles rose on the Left. She was defended by Austen Ivereigh, who has worked with her on her Catholic Voices site:
“Knowing of her involvement with Sarah Palin’s campaign,” said Ivereigh, “I expected to find someone with Republican views. But what I met was a Catholic first, whose faith gives her a much higher horizon than U.S.
It’s Rosenbloom time and the indignation is humming.
How dare you, Sir? (to Lance Briggs)
Keep yr mouth shut on this issue, will you? I’ll have your job.
You’ll never eat lunch in this town again. Etc. etc.
It hurts to see a grown man get so mad.
Reblogged from Oak Park Newspapers:
NBA player announces that he's black (which we knew) and gay (which we didn't), finds it therapeutic to the extreme. Bulls player Kirk Hinrich is asked about it, delivers a resounding shrug:
"Its really not significant to me. It surprised me but its just a big distraction right now . I was surprised . . . . It doesnt really change what kind of person he is or anything.
Father Graf’s incredible adventure:
A Catholic priest from Chicago’s Southwest side crossed the border from Mexico into the United States illegally to call for immigration reform.
Father Gary Graf from Saint Gall Church did the border crossing in Nogales, Arizona recently, by hopping a fence.
He then turned himself into federal agents, and asked for forgiveness.
He returned to Chicago Saturday night and celebrated mass Sunday morning.
Father Graf hopes the crossing sparks authentic dialogue on immigration laws.
I get the protest part. But forgiveness? What the . . . ? Like if stopped for speeding, you tell the cop you’re sorry? What the . . . ?
