With the blessing of Francis Cardinal George on May 11th and Leo High School's All-Weather Indoor Track, the Lions roared at Charleston's Eastern Illinois University 2012 IHSA Class 1-A meet and takes home it seventh (7th) State Track Championship Trophy. Well done President Dan McGrath, Coaches Ed Adams, Pete Doyle and Marcus Pass and the Leo Lion Track Champions!
Facta Non Verba!
Update:
CHARLESTON, Ill. — Leo senior Keith Harris Jr. was somber.
He and sophomore Theodore Hopkins didn't finish where they had hoped Saturday in the 200-meter dash at the Class 1A boys track and field state finals, and Harris thought Leo's chances at a second consecutive team championship were finished.
Minutes later, Eureka helped lift Leo's spirits and its state title count.
Eureka finished fifth, ahead of Newton, in the 1,600 relay, the final race at O'Brien Stadium. That left Newton one point short of Leo's 35 in the team race. The Lions won by one point for the second straight season. Monticello (31) was third.
Leo's only event title came in the 400 relay, when Harris and Hopkins teamed with Corey Pryor and Marlon Britton to win in 42.76 seconds. Britton was second in the 110 hurdles to help the Lions to their seventh team title.
"We knew we had to score high in the relay to get a chance to win state, so that's what we did," said Harris, who finished fourth in the 100 and seventh in the 200. Chicago Tribune Sports
CLASS 1A TEAM SCORES Leo 35, Newton 34, Monticello 31, St. Joseph-Ogden 30, Villa Grove 28, Casey-Westfield 28, Kewanee 27, Manlius Bureau Valley 26, Chester 24, Johnston City 22, Mooseheart 22 CLASS 1A WINNERS Long jump -- Dontae Pryor, Kewanee, 23-3.75; Pole vault -- Mitch Mammoser, Newton, 15-11; High jump -- Kyle Landon, Chester, 6-10; Shot put -- Adam Weidner, Manlius Bureau Valley, 57-10.75; Triple jump -- Heath Byom, Knoxville, 43-10.75; Discus -- Ryan Pearce, Villa Grove, 166-11; 3,200 relay -- Monticello, 8:01.08; 400 relay -- Leo, 42.76; 3,200 -- Steve Schroeder, Monticello, 9:39.10; 110 hurdles -- Colin Carver, Casey-Westfield, 14.65; 100 -- Dontae Pryor, Kewanee, 10.61; 800 -- Eric Leonard, Niantic Sangamon Valley, 1:54.61; 800 relay -- Tuscola, 1:28.79; 400 -- Dan Farmer, Johnston City, 49.25; 300 hurdles -- Colin Carver, Casey-Westfield, 38.71; 1,600 -- Grant Nykaza, Beecher, 4:18.34; 200 -- Dan Farmer, Johnston City, 22.37; 1,600 relay -- Aurora Christian, 3:24.15
The Big Shoulders Fund supports Cardinal George's Lions at Leo High School!
Chicago has the largest Catholic school system in America, led by Francis Cardinal George and Sister Mary Paul McCaughey, O.P.. Catholic schools in Chicago save billions of tax-dollars for Illinois tax-payers. Catholic schools cost money - cash money, hard dollars, the long-Green difference. The Big Shoulders Fund* is that long ( 25 Years and going strong) difference. The average Catholic grammar school tuition runs in the neighborhood of $ 5,000 and a high school cost sits between $ 7,500 and $ 8,000 per student.
Catholic students receive a solid grounding in college prep course, but also a foundation in values absent in public education.
Catholic schools focus on the values of faith, hope, love, and community. We talk openly about values and spend time each day giving children an opportunity to learn, share, and understand the consequences of good and bad behaviors. We believe in Jesus Christ and we have a feeling of grace that comes from our beliefs.
Can the school your child attends teach the sort of lessons that will help your child become a good and compassionate person? Is there a clear expectation that all children will be treated with respect by teachers and other students?
How a school handles these issues indicates whether the school is capable of reinforcing the values that you and other parents teach at home. Ultimately, we want your child to grow up to be a good and compassionate person, and we will do everything we can to help you raise your child in the right way.
The Chicago media would have you believe that Chicago is and always has been a Secular City. It is not and never has been. Chicago is was and should be always a City of Faith - founded by French Catholics ( Monsieur Du Sable was a child of Rome). The Chicago Tribune is and has been an anti-Catholic news organ. Its editorial board and most of its columnists never give the Catholic Church and Catholics themselves short shrift. Short shrift is a Catholic term by the way. It is an Anglo Saxon derivation of Latin Scribere(L) -scrifen (OE) -schriven -meaning to possess what has been written, or prescribed for forgiveness.
Back in the day and, yes, even today, Confession, or Penance, was the means by which one could be forgiven by the Church Universal - back in Communion. My personal door to the Confessional swings like a saloon door on pay day. I get shriven and then forgiven. " See you soon, Hickey! Try to make it past the Holy Water font on the way out."
Too many comfortable Catholics are ashamed to be comfortable and Catholic, these days, because the only news about Catholics in the newspapers, especially Know Nothing Joe Medill's Tribune, is a Ha-Ha piece by the always smarmy Eric Zorn - today, ( Abort-Hissy Fit! Abort Hissy Fit!) it happens to be about a kid getting disciplined for a Tebow-moment during a Catholic high school graduation somewhere in this vast Republic of ours - or a Neo Theo Personal Jesus Was a Community Organizer and Abortion Friendly Nun by the loony Manya Brachear, not to be out-done by Bruce Dold, the disk-jockey-cum-editor of course, who regularly churns out chides to Cardinals and Catholics to abandon their Faith and evolve like Dick Durbin and Pat Quinn.
Catholics live under the radar in this media-propped Secular City. They live in neighborhoods defined by Catholic Parishes - St. Tommy More, St. Sabina's, Our Lady of Tepeyac & St. Columbanus. Catholics are civil servants, teachers, nurses, cops, firemen, skilled tradesmen, business leaders and tax-payers. They pay twice - tuition that keeps taxes down and ever soaring taxes to pay for public education.
Catholics fund the tuition of Muslims, Jews, Protestants and even the children of atheists and agnostics who want their children educated. Catholics have always done that and will continue to do so until the day that laws promoted by the Tribune make that impossible. That day is looming very quickly. Catholics can still vote.
Tonight Catholics and people who understand that Chicago would still be a smoking pile of 1871 embers were it not for Catholics celebrate 25 years of really Big Shoulders
The Big Shoulders Fund will
host a 25th
Anniversary Dinner on Thursday, May 24, 2012 at the Chicago Hilton and
Towers.The evening will honor all of the Big Shoulders' Champions with
special recognition of the Founders. Dinner committee in
formation.
Founders of Big Shoulders
Fund Mr. James W. Compton
Sr. Mary Brian Costello,
R.S.M.
Mr. Lester Crown
Mr. Ronald GidwitzMr. William McIntosh
Mr. Andrew J. McKenna Sr.,
founding Vice Chairman
Mr. James J. O’Connor,
founding Chairman
Mr. Edmund A. Stephan
(deceased)
Mr. Barry F. Sullivan
Mr. Arthur R. Velasquez
Celebrate your Faith. Celebrate your history, not as Joe Medill, Eric Zorn, Bruce Dold and Manya Brachear would have you believe, but as it is, was and should be.
Esse quam Videre, Catholics. Viva Cristo Rey! Catholics Forward . . .while you can move.
*Mission StatementThe mission of the Big Shoulders Fund is to
provide support to the Catholic schools in the neediest areas of inner-city
Chicago.
Big Shoulders Fund is unique in that administrative expenses are supported by
an endowment and other income which ensures all funds currently raised go toward
programs that benefit the Big Shoulders Fund schools and the students they serve
through scholarships, special education programs, instructional equipment,
much-needed school facility improvements, faculty support, and operating
grants.
20th Century Government Mandates against Religion:
Father Miguel Pro, SJ. executed by the Mexican secularist government in 1927 -Viva Cristo Rey!Rey!”
'The ignorant serve cruel masters.' The Clouds Aristophanes
"We support the right of women in this country to have access to birth control through their insurance policies, and anybody who stands in the way is going to have to deal with us and our friends," said Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., flanked by four colleagues. Boxer said she had spoken to Obama adviser David Axelrod, who assured her that the administration would not weaken its position. USA Today 2/9/2012
Anti-clericalism is a historical movement that opposes religious institutional power and influence in public and political life. In its more extreme manifestations, anti-clericalism has led to violent attacks against the clergy, vandalism against religious sites, and the seizure of church property. Often directed against the Catholic Church and clergy, anti-clericalism goes beyond mere secularism or the French tradition of laïcité, which advocates both the absence of religious interference in government affairs and government interference in religious affairs. The goal of anti-clericalism is often that religion should become a strictly private activity . . .During the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s, and in the context of atrocities on both sides, many of the Republican forces were violently anti-clerical anarchists and Communists. The numerous assaults against Catholic institutions, clergy, and supporters during this period have been been termed Spain's Red Terror. These included the sacking and burning of monasteries and churches and killing 283 nuns and more than 6,000 priests, including 13 bishops, 4184 diocesan priests, 2365 members of male religious orders. Among these were 259 Claretians, 226 Franciscans, 204 Piarists, 176 Brothers of Mary, 165 Christian Brothers, 155 Augustinians, 132 Dominicans, and 114 Jesuits. There are accounts of the Catholic faithful being forced to swallow rosary beads, thrown down mine shafts, and priests being forced to dig their own graves before being buried alive. The Catholic Church has canonized several martyrs of the Spanish Civil War and has beatified hundreds more. New World Encyclopedia
My students said this more often than not - "No Way!" They also protested " You're Crazy!" Most often they exclaimed " Are You Serious?!"
These came in response to questions with regard to Master At Arms Claggert's homosexual overtures to the handsome sailor Billy Budd, Herman Melville's novel of same name. As the innocent and beautiful young man shouted so innocently to his shipmates " Farewell Rights of Man!" the irony of discovery is a real push -me- pull -you in the noggin. No Way!!!!!!!!!
Way.
I taught wonderfully diverse, but always solidly important novels, plays, essays and histories to my students: Not only did they read Catcher in the Rye, but also Catch 22; The Sun Also Rises and the U.S.A trilogy; The Scarlet Letter and Genesis.
My students were great critics and often favored John Dos Passos over Ernest Hemingway - " Why is Hemingway so huge and no one reads Dos Passos?"
Well, discipuli, that statement is no longer true. You read Dos Passos.
Interestingly, Dos Passos and Hemingway were friends until the Spanish Civil War 1937. The two writers were very much alike - both born in Illinois, WWI veterans and part of the post-war Parisian crowd of Modern Culture Vultures. They both shared leftist political views, until the Spanish Civil War. A man by the name of Jose Robles, who had taught Spanish and literature in America and translated the works of Dos Passos, Hemingway and Sinclair Lewis into Spanish and share the same socialist/leftist political ideals, was placed against a wall and shot by the Republican ( Communists) authorities for not being 'left enough.'
Hemingway was not too bothered by the murder of his friend Jose Robles, but he was really upset that John Dos Passos equated the murder of his friend to the slaughter and persecution of Catholics by the soviet led Republicans. Hemigway cut Dos Passos dead and like any MSNBC shill taking coin today engaged in charcter assasination of his old friend. Dos Passos wrote honestly. Hemingway was a gargantuan bullshitter worthy of his Nobel Prize. Dos Passos died in 1970. Hemigway painted his ceilling with his brains in 1961. Way.
Progessives are secularists. Religion is okay as long as it does not make itself public. The American Progressives want this Democratic Republic to become "One Nation" without the prepsitional phrase "Under God." America is getting there.
Our popular culture paints the Spanish Civil War as a romantic, gallant fight against fascism. It was monstrous, brutal and heartless fight against fascism. Humphrey Bogart, Gary Cooper and John Garfield all played Spanish Civil War Veterans from the Republican side - they never said Red in the Old Black and Whites.
Every one hates fascists, especially neo-fascists. A fascist is merely a very successful socialist.
No America public educated high school students know anything about the massacre of the Escorial Augustinian seminary students or the Cristiada that swept Mexico from 1926 -1929 ten years before the Communists took control of the Spanish Republic.
Facts are troublesome things. Much more difficult is the task of applying what we have learned to our lives.
President Obama is at war with Catholic Church and American religious liberty. No Way!!!!!! Yes, way.
Obama 2012 is the start of the American Cristiada - make no mistake. John Dos Passos began his U.S.A. trilogy with most chapters dedicated to the Revolution in Mexico. An American Wobbly ( IWW) printer goes to fight the working man's fight in the Mexico of Zapata and Pancho Villa. Fainy Mac ends up very disillusioned by the results of his labors:
The Mexican Constitution of 1917 limited the power of the Catholic Church. The constitution required the closing of all elementary schools operated by the Catholic Church. The document also led to the government confiscation of all church owned building and properties. Monastic orders were also outlawed and church services could not be conducted outside of a church. All church activities were to be overseen by the government. Law was also established to take away the voting rights of clergymen. In 1926, the Calles Law was signed making it illegal for clergy to wear their vestments in public. Following the passing of this act, Catholic priests and citizens, with approval from Pope Pius XI, engaged in acts of peaceful protest: boycotting movies and not using public transportation. Some Mexican states are only permitted by law to have a certain number of clergymen living in them. In these states it is not uncommon for the clergy to be pulled out of their homes and burned or shot before a firing squad. The rebellions became more violent. A number of priests holed themselves up in the church, Our Lady of Guadalupe. There is currently a standoff between the priests and the federal soldiers.
The January HHS Contraception Mandate followed the May Hilda Solis's NLRB stripping the Catholic identity from Chicago's St. Xavier University and other schools. Obama will decide what is religious and what is not, what is acceptable to him and what is not. Obama is a later-day composite Yanqui Obergon/Calles*!
Obama 2012 is the blue print for the American Cristiada. It is to be seen how many American Catholics will become Cristeros.
Facts are troubling things.
* Many leaders and members of the Roman Catholic Church in Mexico were highly critical of the 1917 constitution. They especially criticized Article 3, which forbade religious instruction in schools, and Article 130, which adopted an extreme form of separation of church and state, including a series of restrictions on priests and ministers of all religions to hold public office, canvass on behalf of political parties or candidates, or to inherit from persons other than close blood relatives, etc.).[27]
Although Obregón was suspicious of the Catholic Church, he was far less anti-clerical than his successor, Plutarco Elías Calles, whose policies would lead to the Cristero War (1926–29). For example, he sent Pope Pius XI congratulations upon his election in 1922, and in a private message to the pope, emphasized the "complementarity" of the aims of the Catholic Church and the Mexican Revolution.[27]
In spite of Obregón's moderate approach, his presidency saw the beginnings of clashes between Catholics and supporters of the Mexican Revolution. Some bishops campaigned actively against land distribution and against the organization of workers into secular unions. Catholic Action movements were founded in Mexico in the wake of Pius XI's 1922 encyclical Ubi arcano, and supporters of the Young Mexican Catholic Action soon found themselves in violent conflict with CROM members.[28] The most serious diplomatic incident occurred in 1923, when Ernesto Eugenio Filippi, the Apostolic Nuncio to Mexico, conducted an open-air religious service in spite of the fact that it was illegal to hold a religious service outside of a church. The government invoked Article 33 of the constitution and expelled Filippi from Mexico.[29]
Obama wants The Rock to evolve. No wonder he has kept his academic records embargoed. I dare say his Earth Science ( Rocks for Jocks and Heads of Blocks 101) grade might have been a Gentleman's D. The Roman Catholic Church, even here in evolved America, was instituted by Christ to give us Grace. Protestant Churches condemned contraception until 1930.
The Historic Christian Teaching
Few realize that up until 1930, all Protestant denominations agreed with the Catholic Church’s teaching condemning contraception as sinful. At its 1930 Lambeth Conference, the Anglican church, swayed by growing social pressure, announced that contraception would be allowed in some circumstances. Soon the Anglican church completely caved in, allowing contraception across the board. Since then, all other Protestant denominations have followed suit. Today, the Catholic Church alone proclaims the historic Christian position on contraception.
Evidence that contraception is in conflict with God’s laws comes from a variety of sources that will be examined in this tract. ( emphasis my own)
The Foundation built upon Rock should not cave-in, regardless of politicians, vast piles of cash and a secularist will to control history, personal liberty and thought itself. Therefore, in response to the hubris of the Obama White House in its mandates to determine and define what is a religious institution, The Rock rolls.
The 12 lawsuits filed jointly Monday accuse the
U.S. Departments of Labor,
Treasury and Health and Human Services and their respective secretaries — Hilda Solis, Timothy
Geithner and Kathleen
Sebelius — of violating the Catholic Church's religious liberty by defining
what qualifies as a religious institution and excluding schools, hospitals and
charities from that definition.
"This lawsuit is about an unprecedented attack by the federal government on
one of America's most cherished freedoms: the freedom to practice one's religion
without government interference," said Springfield Bishop Thomas Paprocki, a
trained lawyer and former auxiliary bishop in Chicago.
In February, the Obama administration offered a compromise that required
insurance companies to cover the cost of any care, not religious employers. But
many of the plaintiffs in the suits filed Monday argue that accommodation
doesn't help because they self-insure. The government is still finalizing a
regulation for self-insured groups.
Chicago's Cardinal
Francis George indicated that the archdiocese's absence from Monday's
lawsuits didn't signal satisfaction with that accommodation or less concern
about the issue. In previous remarks, he has said the government's efforts
amount to a "theft of identity."
"The Archdiocese
of Chicago is obviously deeply concerned about preserving the Catholic
identity of Catholic educational, health care and social service organizations,"
George said in a statement. "The Archdiocese therefore entirely supports the
actions of the Catholic dioceses and organizations that have brought suit
against the Department of Health and Human Services for violating the heretofore
constitutionally guaranteed religious freedom of Catholic institutions."
The Rock rolls forward. Obama is incapable of compromise, much less tolerance. because he is owned by Planned Parenthood, Abortion and the Dowager Class insistent upon a perpetuation of the Original Hate Crime -Abortion. Gay Marriage is an adjunct of abortion, because acceptance of abortion is the fist in God's Face. After that cave-in, anything is acceptable.
President Obama has been fully consistent with regard to Abortion. Planned Parenthood made him an Illinois State Senator, a United States Senator and Planned Parenthood's First and God willing the last Abortion President.
Well, What do you know? There ! Right there in Green Is By God Waldo!
I went to hear the Chicago Jazz Caravan featuring vocalist Miss Terry Sullivan perform at 12 West Elm in heart of the Gold Coast yesterday. Miss Sullivan and a trio of jazz geniuses ( Tommy Muellner- piano, Jim Cox - bassist and Art Davis Trumpet and Flugelhorn) gave a brilliant afternoon of jazz and standards from the American Songbook to a score or more hearty souls from 3PM - 5: 30 PM.
This show went off despite fears that the NATO Summit might sweep the streets with mobs of protesters and Anarchist nut-jobs.. Not so.
I believe that I have mentioned that I live on the south side, Morgan Park. I eschewed the Dan Ryan for the trip north taking Western Ave.to Ogden and then a right turn on Chicago Avenue to State Street. It was the Cat's Nuts - less than 45 minute and I hit every green light like I had been an Obama Bundle-er.
The Chicago Police and the good sense citizens of Chicago made this all possible. CPD were present and visible.
On the Gold Coast itself the employed youth of America packed cafes, beer gardens and the streets with disposable income earned from their toils this past week.
At Viagra Triangle itself my contemporaries including former Mayor Richard M. Daley sunned themselves outside of Gibson's Steak House, while Nannies and Moms with strollers bought ice cream at the kiosk.
Unseen all day, for me anyway, were the storied throngs Andy Thayer's Street Party. I parked, enjoyed great jazz, occupied a bar stool next to Dominic, who was hacked from the Illinois Human Rights Commission by Blago. We chatted about political bottom-feeders. It was the berries.
Further to the south my neighbors and hundreds of other members of the Chicago Police Department and Chicago Fire Department heroes tended to the protesting throngs. While Miss Terry Sullivan sang "Day-in; Day Out" to the fiery tempo set by Jim Cox's Bass and fingers, the time of the Andy Thayer Party Permit expired and Superintendent Garry McCarthy, who stood with his officers all day and all night, ordered the crowds to disperse, thanks for coming, don't forget the handy trash bins for Green America, head home, good night, take it on the heel and toe, it was swell!
Some guests need to be shown the door and instructed in the operation of its best use.
The Black Bloc Anarchist met the Blue Bloc Centurions.
With a minimum of bumps and scrapes the intemperate and the angry were encouraged to leave.
One Chicago Police Officer was stabbed and more than a few injured.
Chicago Police Department showed the world how to handle idiots, with temperance, restraint and the odd nudge.
I listened to full account on WBBM AM. as I drove home from a great afternoon of jazz. I hit every green light going south, until 59th & Western Ave.. Is this a great City or what?
God Bless the Officers, Firefighters, Traffic Control Pros, Streets and Sanitation Workers who kept Chicago and its visitors safe and cleaned up the tons of mess that Green Friendly Andy Thayer's Street Party left scattered.
Cardinal George and Father Daniel Flens arrived at Leo HS at 9:30 AM met by a jowly employee of the archdiocese and Mr. Jeremy Clark of the Sophomore Class
After a visit to the Chapel of Leo High School His Eminence met the Leo dignitaries (L-R)Tamara Holder Leo Board, Alum Ben Nowakowski, Leo Board President Bob Sheehy and legendary Alumnus and legendary teacher/coach Bill Hessian
Cardinal George immediately thanked Jack Schaller Leo '43 for his gracious welcome and fabulous lunch at Schaller's Pump on March 1st.
The Cardinal had the rapt attention of every Leo Man with his remarks and blessing
The Cardinal was made a Leo Alumnus and Letterman
Tamara Holder showed His Eminence the past Principals and Leo Students of the Month
I will post more photos from this glorious day in Leo History:
The Cardinals talk to the student Body
The Alumni Presentations by President Emeritus Rich Furlong and the induction of Francis Cardinal George by Leo President Dan McGrath and Bob Sheehy to the Leo Lettermen ( traditionally known as Monogram Society) Club.
During the NATO Summit, occupy yourselves with the American Songbook presented by jazz vocalist Miss Terry Sullivan and the Chicago Jazz Caravan at Chicago's sophisticated venue for great music - 12 West Elm. N,B. limited seating; reservations recommended
Miss Sullivan, accompanied by Chicago Jazz greats, the celebrated trio of pianist Tom Muellner, Jim Cox on Bass and Art David on Trumpet sings America's greatest art form - jazz standards.
With help of a blessing from Chicago's Archbishop, Francis Cardinal George, last Friday. pluperfect weather, a magnificent host facility and staff provided by Chicago Christian and Leo High Schools in-door all-weather track featuring 1920 sport tech's four story ninety degree angle stairwells and the dedication of Coaches Ed Adams and Pete Doyle, Leo High School is poised to claim its seventh IHSA Track & Field State Championship.
Under a sunny sky, candied by cool breezes, the Leo Lions dominated the action. I enjoyed the Irish air-conditioning and the full view of the action from my shady vantage under the south-end Dutch Reformed Elms.
Team Scores
Pl School Head Coach Score
1 Leo 127
2 Westmont 91.50
3 Latin 46
4 Hales Franciscan 40.50
5 Seton Academy 31
Long Jump
Pl Competitor Yr School Mark
1 Shaquil Lawrence Seton Academy 21-03.00
2 Joshua Wright Leo 20-09.50
Pole Vault
Pl Competitor Yr School Mark
1 Joseph McDermott Westmont 9-06.00
2 Henry Clark Northridge Prep 9-06.00
High Jump
Pl Competitor Yr School Mark
1 Daniel Vatch Immaculate Conception 6-02.00
2 Noah Wolff Parker 5-05.00
2 Forest Moses Northridge Prep 5-05.00
Shot Put
Pl Competitor Yr School Mark
1 Sam Akainyah North Shore Country Day 50-00.00
2 Eric Owens Leo 46-06.50
Triple Jump
Pl Competitor Yr School Mark Run-Up
1 Noah Wolf Parker 40-05.50
2 Kristofer Pierce Westmont 39-09.00
Discus Throw
Pl Competitor Yr School Mark
1 Hakeem Chatman Leo 159-03.00
2 David McDermott Westmont 139-08.00
4x800-Meter Relay
Pl School Time
1 Chicago Christian 8:30.83
2 Westmont 8:34.47
4x100-Meter Relay
Pl School Time
1 Leo 42.91
2 Hales Franciscan 44.00
3 Timothy Christian 44.17
3200-Meter Run
Pl Competitor Yr School Time
1 Nate Novota Westmont 10:03.39
2 Andrew Nadler Latin 10:05.26
110-Meter High Hurdles
Pl Competitor Yr School Time
1 Joe Morrow Hales Franciscan 14.99
2 Marlon Britton Leo 15.46
100-Meter Dash
Pl Competitor Yr School Time
1 Keith Harris Leo 10.85
2 Theodore Hopkins Leo 11.18
800-Meter Run
Pl Competitor Yr School Time
1 Britt Henderson Latin 1:58.99
2 Caleb Flack Parker 2:01.97
4x200-Meter Relay
Pl School Time
1 Leo 1:28.94
2 Hales Franciscan 1:30.73
400-Meter Dash
Pl Competitor Yr School Time
1 Tim Doll Westmont 49.96
2 Reggie Confer Seton Academy 50.97
3 Ethan Lee Latin 51.53
300-Meter Intermediate Hurdles
Pl Competitor Yr School Time
1 Jake Hooker Timothy Christian 40.15
2 Mikey Robertson Westmont 42.93
1600-Meter Run
Pl Competitor Yr School Time
1 Britt Henderson Latin 4:32.64
2 Alex Sweatman Timothy Christian 4:36.66
200-Meter Dash
Pl Competitor Yr School Time
1 Keith Harris Leo 22.22
2 Theodore Hopkins Leo 22.78
3 Joe Morrow Hales Franciscan 22.92
4x400-Meter Relay
Pl School Time
1 Leo 3:32.48
2 Seton Academy 3:36.55
During the NATO Summit, occupy yourselves with the American Songbook presented by jazz vocalist Miss Terry Sullivan and the Chicago Jazz Caravan at Chicago's sophisticated venue for great music - 12 West Elm. N,B. limited seating;
reservations recommended
Miss Sullivan, accompanied by Chicago Jazz greats, the celebrated trio of pianist Tom Muellner, Jim Cox on Bass and Art David on Trumpet sings America's greatest art form - jazz standards.
Occupy anti-NATO Commandos in Bridgeport - skin that never met a day's work, God Bless Them.
A band of several dozen protesters marched up Halsted Street this evening from
the South Side through Bridgeport, where some engaged in a shouting match with
residents.
The marchers, some of whom covered their faces with hoods or bandanas(sic), began
their protest at about 51st Street and Halsted, chanting obscenities about
police and police brutality.
A few dozen well-heeled, college educated, really sincere and snappily dressed masque-ers sporting button-festooned North Face head wear, American Eagle T-shirts and bandannas marched with a police escort up through the 11th Ward. From Back of the Yards ( 51st Street) through Canaryville (47th-39th Streets) and Bridgeport up Halsted and past Jackie Schaller's landmark Chicago dining venue Schaller's Pump, America's young spark-plugs of change paraded their V masks, Ninja costumes, and Indie fashion apparel along with the naughty words of the truly edgy. Like Jane Addams and Dr. Cornelia De Bey in 1904, the Occupy Commandos were protected and served by the Chicago Police Department.
Halsted Street became the Occupy/Dissident/Anarchist/ Hipster Runway. We were given a preview of the accessory conscious young, armed with Dad-funded Visa Debit cards and Rage Against the Machine.
I'd bet a shiny new Sacagawea gold dollar that not one of these later-day Mother . . .Joneses could identify the significance of these neighborhoods in the real struggle of working people*. Below are the residents of Canaryville and Bridgeport who fought the real fight on Halsted Street the site of yesterday's Che fashion stroll
The Residents of Canaryville circa 1904- meat cutters in Armour's & Swift's Packinghouses - one their great grandchildren attends Leo High School - a young man from St. Gabriel's parish in Canaryville.
This is where American Labor, real Labor and not the phony Reds of SEIU, won its spurs by being betrayed by Progressives and buried by Progressive History. This is where the Jungle happened Cupcakes. Bridgeport was the home of the real Lithuanian workmen portrayed by Upton Sinclair, another armchair recvolutionary opportunist, as protagonist Jurgis Rudkus and his co-workers. Upton watched the 1904 Amalgamated Meatcutters Strike that shut down the American Meat Packing Industry from July to September in 1904 from the front porch of a previously Packingtown blacklisted Knight of Labor John Joyce and scribbled notes.
Jane Addams, like most Progressives is affluent, imperious and a very well protected species
Dr. Cornelia De Bey and Jane Addams and her partner at the time Mary Rozet Smith were members of the Chicago Public School Board. Doc Cornelia had another partner.
The March of the Real Workers began at the Meatcutters Hall at 47th & Ashland. Michael Donnelly the President of the Amalgamated Meatcutters held out against the Strikebreakers, Meat Packers and the phony Out And Proud Progressives Jane Addams and Dr. Cornelia De Bey**. Read the Chicago Tribune account of the end of the 1904 Strike - you will be required to purchase the articles in true Medill fashion; however the NYT covered the strike very well and praised the work of Father Maurice Dorney of St. Gabriel Parish in Canaryville, giving short shrift to the short-haired women and long-haired Progressives. The New York Times accounts are free. Ask me nicely, and I might link my privately owned collection of contemporary accounts.
Father Maurice Dorney was a figure of National renown ( NYT reported on his Spanish American War Service and his heroic fight for workers in three national strikes) -try and find any mention of Father Dorney in the much ballyhooed Chicago Encyclopedia.
Too many Americans subsist on a diet of redacted historical bullshit. Progressive revisionists have erased all traces of genuine social justice fighters.like Father Dorney, John Joyce, the Knights of Labor and actual strikers and given praise and homage to the likes of Jane Addams who sold out the strikers.
Hull House and other Settlement Houses in Hyde Park flourished immediately after the strike was broken. Michael Donnelly, who called and led the strike, disappeared from Chicago and from history. Upton Sinclair wrote a swell book. Teddy Roosevelt got Progressive street cred. The Strikers got bupkis.
*Packinghouse workers, experiencing horrible working conditions and insufficient
wages, sought to secure union recognition as the Amalgamated Meat Cutters. Two
long and bloody strikes (1904 and 1921) were defeated by the companies. During
both strikes, many African-American workers were temporarily employed to break
the strikes. Since Black workers suffered from economic circumstances as
desperate as those faced by the striking White workers, and since they were
excluded generally from unions and consequently the benefits they would gain
from unionization, these so-called "scab" workers felt no loyalty to the
strikers or the union. In the aftermath of the two defeats, hostility towards
Black workers rose, and Black resentment of Whites increased as well. For years,
remembrances of racism and scabbing impaired any effort to create a common front
against the packers.
**When Jane Addams's travels took her away from her
close companion Mary Rozet Smith, she sometimes took along a painting of Smith,
even though the portrait was a rather bulky piece of luggage. Addams, the Nobel
Peace Prize–winning social activist who founded Chicago's Hull-House in 1889,
clearly felt a strong emotional attachment to the aristocratic, gracious woman
in that picture, which now hangs at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum—with a
question mark for a caption.
For the past year, the museum has been seeking suggestions on how to label
the portrait, which Addams commissioned from Alice Kellogg Tyler. Should the
caption suggest Addams and Smith were companions? Lesbian lovers? Or simply
focus on Smith's role as one of Hull-House's most generous financial supporters?
This summer, as the museum gets ready to decide, a new WTTW documentary is
stepping into the fray and staking out the position that Addams and Smith were
lesbians. The producers of Out & Proud in Chicago, Alexandra Silets
and Dan Andries, say their film on the history of gays and lesbians in the city
wouldn't be complete without Addams. "In not revealing this part of Jane
Addams's life, you're denying the rest of us a role model," says Silets, a
lesbian.
“You can be stylish and powerful, too. That's Michelle’s advice.” President Barack Obama, 1st Abortion & Gay President
If Gay Catholic Conservative Newsweek writer Andrew Sullivan's father were gay, he might look like President Obama, but Sullivan Père is not and does not. I shouldn't think not.
As powerful and stylish and stylishly powerful as President Obama might be, he can not alter the fact that Pops Sullivan and Mrs. Sullivan went halves on a baby named Andrew who was natured or nurtured to be homosexual in his sexual preferences and proclivities. Style means much and power means more to Andrew Sullivan and even hetero-Obama cheerleaders like David " Sharp Britches" Brooks and the Obama White House.
The power of style is the style power in Washington D.C. and Beyond the Beltway and on the Run Way! Hope and Change is Style Power and Power Style. Style means fashion, all the rage, sine qua non, pouty strutting shoulder heaves - Get Out My Way! That is Power baby!
Power differs wildly from authority ( potens v. auctoritas) - Power ( potens) means the ability to affect behavior with or without any resistance - Mandate Style! Authority ( auctoritas) is "often used for power perceived as legitimate by the social structure - Substance - the thing absent from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
However, even Style conscious Power Puppies like David Brooks seem even more impotent than the President:
David Brooks, a New York Times columnist who is quite taken with Obama, writes in today’s paper that while Americans think Obama is doing a bad job on the economy and that the country is off track, Obama stands a good chance of being re-elected because of his demeanor: an “ESPN” brand of post-modern machismo cool.
When Obama supporters like Brooks make argument like these, they are engaged in willful self-deception.
There has been nothing very cool about the past 7 weeks for Obama. The president has twisted himself into a policy and rhetorical pretzel to win the support and money he needs from the members of the Democratic coalition.
The 2008 Coalition of the Willing seems to be falling apart. Though he commands The View, President Obama can not see past his celestial pointed snout. Planned Parenthood, SEIU, Gay America and MSNBC will continue their solid investment in Style Power, but I think President Power Style has jumped the catfish (pl.N.)
President and Channel Cats of The View President Obama has Star Power, Style Power, but lacks every bit Authority needed in a President. The long daydream is yawning awake and the Childe Barry of Our Dreams appears more as a shabby, petulant narcissistic poser than he perhaps actually might be - not far amiss though.
President Obama and America really need to have Barack Obama getting busy with his Presidential Library as quick as the Constitution allows.
Dad always said that I couldn't find my butt with both hands. I can. Allow me to add this imperative -“Defend the unborn against abortion even if they persecute you, calumniate you, set traps for you, take you to court or kill you." - Pope Francis to celebrate Pro-life Mass, Vatican
"You stand up for what you believe in, even if it gets in the way of what other people think. You are proud of yourself and your accomplishments and you enjoy letting people know that."
A peach of a guy with all the sweetness one could expect from a life well-spent and in good company: short on brains but a terrific dancer!
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Every Heart and Hand: A Leo High School Story
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