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After the shooting in Newtown, CT, I noticed on Facebook many people asking that the country have a “conversation†about guns. Now typically, that’s a request for some sort of dialog. However, a few of those asking for that proceeded to immediately disparage anyone who would disagree in the slightest with more restrictive gun laws. […]
There are several stories on the web today about a tragic shooting in Florida. The bad news is that the beloved US president has sent in his attack dogs to manipulate the story for political gain. There is some physical evidence to suggest that the Hispanic man shot in self defense, so jumping to the […]
As Summer rolls out its hazy crazy days, pimp hands are blooming all over. From White House plots to the gardens of assorted local governments and/or crime scenes. Though pimp hands are invasive (hence their common name “traveling pimp hands”) and if unchecked, will strangle all other growth, there’s no denying these fleurs du mal […]
The Highland Park High school in Illinois won’t let it’s girls varsity basketball team go compete in a tournament this coming December because its Superintendent’s office doesn’t like Arizona’s politics.
I wrote about the President’s photo op with a bunch of people in white coats, pointing out that few MD’s wear white coats nowadays. But who are those folks in the white coats? Individuals, or do they represent large organizations? Well, this AP photo has some names. Dr. Roland Goertz That name sounds familiar, and […]
It’s an idea which keeps popping up. There is a proposal in the state of Illinois legalize “presumed organ donation”. Most people say that they would agree to donating their organs after they die, but sometimes they “forget” to mark it on their driver’s license, or the consent can’t be found quickly, or the family objects.Voila. […]
Jersey Shore? Fuhgeddaboudit. Jersey City is the gem of reality TV. Shore is MTV. Jersey City is FBI. Like, how real is that? Killer videos of pols talking trash and passing cash have been unspooling in federal court in Newark at the trial of Jersey City Deputy Mayor Leona Beldini. Beldini was busted last Summer in an […]
The Levity Project is a social movement with the mission of shifting the paradigm of negativity, stress, and pessimism in our society to one of play, laughter and celebration.Our vision is to create a society that is joyful and buoyant.To do this, The Levity Project engages in public acts of levity for the purpose of […]
Abbie Hoffman, Yippie Emeritus, died 20 years ago. He was master of the culture jam before the term was coined, whacking the establishment with its own wack. Quoting Wikipedia: “Culture jamming sometimes entails transforming mass media to produce ironic or satirical commentary about itself, using the original medium’s communication method.” Hello, ACORN? Can I come […]
Josh Kalven blogs over at ProgressIllinois.com. Any time you see the word “progress” in a website name, chances are it’s a haven for those uneducated about payday loans, or just plain ideologues who don’t let the facts get in the way of their rigid position. Klaven rambles on incessantly about the alleged evils of payday […]
Martin Luther King once wished that we could be judged by not by the colour of our skin but by our personal achievements. I’m old enough to remember my own medical school had a (unacknowledged) quota for Jewish students (ten percent of the class), blacks and Asians (one or two token students), and up to […]
Atlanta, GA – Tea Party Patriots has teamed up with concerned citizens in Atlanta and Chicago to hold a protest of CNN on Friday June 5, 2009 at CNN Headquarters in Atlanta and the CNN Chicago Bureau. The protest will begin at 10:00am EDT in Atlanta and 12:00 noon CDT in Chicago. Atlanta will also […]
MEMO TO: Richard Feducci, Overlord of Finance FROM: E Pluribus, Wondergod SUBJECT: Five Year International Finance Plan DATE: January 1, 2005 Happy New Year, Rich. Got some good news and some bad news. The bad news: We’re going to let the American economy crater. The good news: Everybody else’s will, too. The best news: By […]
I am sure the day started out about as normal as any other Sunday morning with the exception of today starting Daylight Savings Time for the congregation at the First Baptist Church in Illinois. Losing an hour of sleep isn’t exactly what I would call a good enough excuse to go to a church and […]
One of the founding principles of American jurisprudence, the precept all defendants are entitled to competent representation. The impeachment trial which began today, is little more than a choreographed political persecution. The Governor was well advised to skip it, and head to the big apple to make the rounds of the talk shows, in hopes […]
Blogging from PHOENIX— Is the promise of change we can believe in being tainted by a closet racist? Illinois senator designate Roland Burris as promised was prohibited from taking his seat by majority leader Harry Reid today. But the back story may be in statements the Beleaguered Illinois Governor claims the majority leader made before […]
Blogging From PHOENIX — The day after Governor Rod Blagojevich appointed former Illinois attorney General Roland Burris to fill President-elect Barack Obama’s Senate seat, the United States attorney investigating Mr. Blagojevich on corruption charges requested a 90-day extension to bring an indictment against him. At Tuesday’s press conference Gov. Blagojevich referred to Mr. Burris, as […]
Obama’s Chicago Home: Fannie Mae Mortgage Loan Amount Listed at $1,320,000 Relativity by E. M. Escher While researching an article about Obama’s Chicago home about the circumstances surrounding who is the “owner”, I happened across a bit of information: Obama’s home has a Fannie Mae-Freddie Mac mortgage to the tune of $1,320,000. (Page 5 of […]
Why is William Micelli Listed on the Cook Co. Tax Records As the Owner of Barack Obama’s Home? 5046 South Greenwood, Chicago Illinois The blog, Strata-Sphere, has turned up some interesting information relating to Obama’s Chicago home. Listed in the Cook County Records Property Tax Assessments as “owner” of Obama’s home isn’t the President-elect, nor […]
Some establishment republican’s and blue dog democrats, fresh from a successful plot on behalf of their foreign masters to derail congressional efforts at saving the U.S. auto industry, Pivoted quickly to focus attention on crafting a grand illusion they hope to sell in time for the holidays, Seems President Obama is secretly behind the scandal engulfing […]
Yes, I’m not a psychologist, but as a Family Practitioner in rural areas, I’ve diagnosed and treated my share of mental illnesses in my patients. So I am appalled at the press swallowing the spin that Governor Blagojevich’s desire for money/bribes is a “mental illness”. CBS2Chicago: Gov. Rod Blagojevich knew for months he was under […]
Here in the Philippines, we figure that all politicians are on the take. Politicians visiting the Presidential palace get gift boxes containing thousands of dollars in pesos; fertilizer funds are funneled to politicians to distribute right before an election (and many, but not all, of the politicians made money off the deal, by buying the […]
David Schussler So I’m sitting on the toilet, it’s six thirty AM, and I’m thinking about how good it is to be relieving myself of bodily toxins early in the morning. I’m going to have a good day. I’m remembering the lessons I learned while living alone in the bush and having time to understand […]
The New York Times allowed G-d knows how many innocent trees to die so that it could publish a self-serving, deeply disingenuous op-ed by terrorist-cum-educator William Ayers – who actually expects us to feel sorry for his being pilloried during the presidential campaign: I was cast in the “unrepentant terrorist†role; I felt at times […]
In a little suburb of Chicago called Evanston Illinois there was a discovery that shocked everyone around. Police found a 90 year old woman inside her home where she was living with the bodies of three of her dead siblings. Two of the bodies were described as skeletons and the third was said to be […]
Isn’t this rich? At a rally in Sarasota, FL, yesterday Barack Obama said:  The reason that we want to do this, change our tax code, is not because I have anything against the rich. I love rich people! I want all of you to be rich. Go for it. That’s the America dream, that’s the […]
It is sad when one can’t consider your own home as a safe place to be. Jennifer Hudson’s, from American Idol, mother and brother was found by a relative in Hudson’s mother’s home on the South Side of Chicago where they had been apparently gunned down during a domesticate dispute according to law enforcement officials. […]
If you steal a million bucks, and don’t tell anyone, is it a crime? Well, maybe, say the Catholic bishops, especially if it might be some of our antipoverty money. It seems that the Catholic Bishop’s “poverty” charity, the “Catholic Campaign for Human Development”, has been giving a million bucks or so each year to […]
A panel of 44 men and women armed with dials numbered from 0 (most negative) to 100 (most positive) assembled by CBS to watch the veep debate at its TV City research facility in Las Vegas yielded an unexpected finding: Biden did better than Palin when he talked about the Iraq war, but the tables […]
That debate at Belmont University in Nashville, TN, was no town hall meeting. It was highly ritualized Kabuki Theater. To begin with, instead of just letting the first 5,000 people to show up into the Curb Event Center and taking questions from the audience at random, The Gallup Organization hand-picked 80 uncommitted voters from the Nashville […]
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