Month: March 2012
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Mayor’s Friend Brings You the Speed Cameras
When Rahm Emanuel was a first-time candidate for Congress, Greg Goldner was behind him, quietly marshaling the patronage troops that helped get him elected. When Emanuel ran for mayor, Goldner was there again, doling out campaign cash to elect Emanuel-friendly aldermen to City Council. And when the rookie mayor was looking for community support for…
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John Boehner, Telling it Like it is.
“People think I’ve got this job as a leader. They don’t realize that I have about 200 responsibilities and roles. I’ve gotta be the big brother, the father, I gotta be the disciplinarian, the dean of students, the principal, the spouse—you can’t believe all the roles that I have to play! But one of them…
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8 Shot on South, West sides Overnight
6:00 a.m. CDT, March 11, 2012 At least eight people were shot Saturday night and Sunday morning on the South and West sides, according to police. via Chicago Tribune. Eight in one night. It appears that all the criminals are willing to carry despite all the laws Rahm et. al. keep passing. So what are…
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Downstate and Chicago, Brothers in Arms?
It’s an Op-Ed, but it’s also propaganda: Mayor Rahm Emanuel was in Peoria earlier this week talking about how Chicago and Downstate politicians need to stop fighting so much. “The politics of the past where we used to play Chicago versus downstate is over. It doesn’t serve the people of Illinois,” Emanuel said, adding, “It’s…
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Bill To Regulate Men’s Reproductive Health
Before getting a prescription for Viagra or other erectile dysfunction drugs, men would have to see a sex therapist, receive a cardiac stress test and get a notarized affidavit signed by a sexual partner affirming impotency, if state Sen. Nina Turner has her way. via Dayton Daily News. The thinking here is more than a…
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Bus Driver Injured with Caustic Liquid by Passenger
A CTA bus driver was treated at an area hospital tonight after a woman threw a liquid believed to be rubbing alcohol in the man’s face when the two argued about an expired fare card, police said. via Chicago Tribune. One word yet on whether Rahm’s going to demand from Springfield a Rubbing Alcohol Registry.
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DC Metro’s Pervert Problem
[DC] Metro took several steps this week to address complaints that it wasn’t taking sexual harassment seriously enough. … “I was disturbed to hear their reports about assault and intimidation while riding trains and buses, particularly those accounts which involved our employees making disrespectful comments,” Sarles wrote to his more than 11,000 employees in a…
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Facebook in the News (and not in a good way)
Some people will never learn that whatever you post online people will expose: FOX Chicago News has obtained pictures of a Chicago police officer wearing his uniform in some very provocative photos with women wearing next to nothing. The photos were posted on the officer’s Facebook page. FOX Chicago News has three, but we’ve learned…
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FAA to Allow Unmanned Drones (to kill you)
The Federal Aviation Administration has taken the first concrete step toward allowing drones to fly alongside passenger airplanes in the United States. As required by a law signed by President Obama in February, the FAA is moving forward with a plan to integrate unmanned aircraft into the national airspace by 2015. … Proponents of the…
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Jim Rogers: Worry About 2013, Panic About 2014
If you don’t know Jim Rogers you should. I first heard about him maybe 15 or so years ago. I was riding my Harley around and someone gave me Jim’s book, Investment Biker. It’s a great read and for several months I wanted to grow-up to be Jim Rogers. Also interesting, from Wikipedia: In December…