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subrob1967 -> RE: Conservatives Are Losing The Culture War (7/30/2012 1:56:11 PM)
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ORIGINAL: DomKen
Gay bashings are way way down. The police respond very seriously when it does happen.
We still don't have marriage equality but the Governor has made some noise in support.
The last of the abortion opponents have stopped protesting the clinics here. It's been years since anyone even got an anti abortion bill a vote in either house of the state legislature.
The state science standars were redone a few years back to include more discussion of evolution. The creationists seem to have moved out of state seeking more gullible suckers.
We still have a fair number of unions and union members. The unions held off Wal-Mart's entry into the city for years until they got substantial concessions (there is even a quiet move underway to unionize a city Wal-Mart).
So all in all the progressive social agenda is doing quite well in Chicago.
Quite well... I can see that.
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Across a span of four days, more than 40 shootings and 10 homicides were reported in Chicago over the Memorial Day weekend -- a big jump when compared to the four homicides reported during the same holiday weekend last year. Among those injured by gunfire was a 7-year-old girl, who was listed in good condition Saturday evening.
The weekend was the city's bloodiest since mid-March.
Early Tuesday, Ivan Alanis, a 13-year-old boy, became yet another Chicago victim of gun violence. Alanis was fatally shot around 2:20 a.m. while eating pizza at Laurie’s Pizzeria and Liquors, 5153 N. Broadway, with his sister, CBS Chicago reports. He was pronounced dead at 3:16 a.m. at Advocate Illinois Medical Center.
Despite the violent weekend, however, McCarthy insisted that the Chicago Police Department's efforts to address gang violence are proving effective, and have actually led to a 7 percent reduction in the number of shootings since March, the Chicago Tribune reports. Gun seizures, too, are up 20 percent since the program has been implemented, according to CBS, while overall crime is down.
Still, homicides in the city so far this year are up nearly 50 percent when compared to last year.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/11/chicago-shootings-8-dead-_n_1586322.html
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There were similar attacks in Streeterville last year. News organizations at first called them "flash mobs," but that made the police angry. These young people didn't mob up to dance. They mobbed up to hit people.
And, in at least two separate incidents last weekend, the one involving the doctor and another in which a Michigan man's jaw was broken, robbery was not the motive.
They didn't rob them. They beat them for fun.
The doctor knows that in other neighborhoods, people are being killed, not merely beaten.
"But it's unsettling when they beat you for pleasure and nothing else," he said.
Streeterville is no war zone. The war zone is far to the south and the west, neighborhoods where gang violence spreads terror every weekend, as if Chicago were Afghanistan.
As if Chicago were Afghanistan...
Sounds like paradise there Ken.[8|]
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