Chicago State University has been unable to locate $3.8 million worth of equipment, including 950 computers that could contain confidential information, according to a state audit.
via Chicago Tribune.
Doh!
The story reflects that most of the equipment was actually purchased, and pilfered, during the Daley administration.
I hope that this was discovered as a result of Rahm and Gerry Chico looking into the misadventures of Elnora Daniel the former CSU president who belongs in jail.
The number one post (in terms of views) on this blog thus far has been the story about the boy from Kansas City, who happened to be white, and was walking along and set on fire by two other kids, who happen to be black.
This story came up again in the comments on a story over at CNN about a reporter using the N* word on live TV. Kudos to “Tom” who today at 5:08 CT posted:
Why has CNN not reported about the Black on White hate crime in Kansas City? Two black teenagers gasoline torching a white 13 year old and not adrop of reporting.
So that got me thinking and I did some Googling:
boy kansas city gasoline fire
11,800,000 results – News Only, 28 resultskansas city gasoline fire hate crime
380,000 results – News Only, 16 resultsflorida neighborhood watch shoots black unarmed
522,000 results – News Only, 3,700 resultsflorida neighborhood watch shoots black unarmed hate crime
68,800 results – News Only, 103 results
Wow!!
It appears the media has generally ignored the Kansas City story but the blogosphere wrote about it extensively. It also appears that both the media and the blogosphere are careful, cautious, about labeling a story a hate crime.
UPDATE: Changed formatting of the search results to better fit on the page.
I’m sorry this story is a few days old, I’ve been busy.
As a courtesy the LA Times didn’t mention Eric Holder’s name in this article.
Seven months after federal agents began the ill-fated Fast and Furious gun-tracking operation, they stumbled upon their main suspect in a remote Arizona outpost on the Mexican border, driving an old BMW with 74 rounds of ammunition and nine cellphones hidden inside.
Detained for questioning that day in May 2010, Manuel Fabian Celis-Acosta described to agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives his close association with a top Mexican drug cartel member, according to documents obtained this weekend by the Times/Tribune Washington Bureau.
The top Fast and Furious investigator, Special Agent Hope MacAllister, scribbled her phone number on a $10 bill after he pledged to cooperate and keep in touch with investigators.
Then Celis-Acosta disappeared into Mexico. He never called.
Had they arrested him red-handed trying to smuggle ammunition into Mexico, Fast and Furious might have ended quickly. Instead, the program dragged on for another eight months, spiraling out of control.
via LA Times.
Will the Obama administration hold ANYONE accountable for this?
Say it ain’t so Joe.
“America’s toughest sheriff” says there is “tons” more potentially shocking information on Barack Obama in connection with his probe into the president’s eligibility, and he calls the media’s suppression of his findings of a likely forged presidential birth certificate and Selective Service Card “probably the biggest censorship blackout in the history of the United States.”
via WND.
The video tells the story better than I could:
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Garry McCarthy says the intelligence is there. It’s just a matter of getting the information to beat officers so they can anticipate a retaliatory gang shooting.
“We’re going to get our head around this thing and we’re going to turn it around is what it boils down to,” McCarthy told reporters on Monday. “If we were sitting here saying we don’t know what’s going on, we don’t know what to do, that would be a different situation. We know what’s going on. We’re putting pieces in place to make sure we can stem this tide.”
via CBS Chicago.
So if I understand this correctly, McCarthy is saying that he believes beat officers are supposed to be able to “anticipate a retaliatory gang shooting”? The problem thus far has been that “It’s just a matter of getting the information to beat officers.”
This is a most amazing pile of tripe. I can’t believe CBS published this without any follow-up comments. I guess they’re the new PR dept. for City Hall and McCarthy.
Manpower is an issue:
[FOP talking head Pat] Camden says the department loses 50 officers a month to attrition, leaving police short-handed on the street.
“I don’t think they’ve hired 600 officers in the past five years,” he said.
Worse, Rahm (and Alderman Beale) have specifically planned to reduce the number of police on the street.
Police Supt. Garry McCarthy told the Chicago Sun-Times earlier week that he’s been asked to cut $190 million from the Police Department’s $1.3 billion-a-year budget and would only get halfway there by eliminating 1,400 police vacancies.
via Chicago Sun-Times Sept. 02, 2011.
And for those who don’t remember, these were not police who were working, these were vacancies. Open budgeted spots where Daley was too busy with flower boxes to bring on new officers.
CPD is short manpower & we’re all suffering because of it.
[In] 1995 … then-U.S. Attorney Eric Holder announc[ed] a public campaign to “really brainwash people into thinking about guns in a vastly different way.”
Holder was addressing the Woman’s National Democratic Club. In his remarks, broadcast by CSPAN 2, he explained that he intended to use anti-smoking campaigns as his model to “change the hearts and minds of people in Washington, DC” about guns.
“What we need to do is change the way in which people think about guns, especially young people, and make it something that’s not cool, that it’s not acceptable, it’s not hip to carry a gun anymore, in the way in which we changed our attitudes about cigarettes.”
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Despite strict gun control efforts, Washington, DC was and remains one of the nation’s most dangerous cities for gun violence, though crime has abated somewhat since the 1990s.
via Brieitbart.
Video:
http://content.bitsontherun.com/players/vvy0FSoM-svqBtzyp.html
He also exposes how modern progressives use schools to promote their brainwashing on America’s youth.
Local political leaders and celebrities, Holder said, including Mayor Marion Barry and Jesse Jackson, had been asked to help. In addition, he reported, he had asked the local school board to make the anti-gun message a part of “every day, every school, and every level.”
Right thinking people believe that parents are the primary educator.
More and more it’s quickly becoming clear that Holder is an anchor around Obama’s neck… if the media would just wake up.
A bizarre weekend where the high exceeded 80 degrees also brought a rash of violence across Chicago, which left at least 10 people dead and some 40 others wounded.
via CBS Chicago.
There’s no end in sight. CPD is so undermanned that little can be done.
Whatever the Mayor’s is doing, it’s not working.
Good news for Second Amendment types:
Today, March 13, U.S. Senators Mark Begich (D-Alaska) and Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) introduced S. 2188, the “National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act of 2012.” The bill is the Senate companion to H. R. 822, which was approved by the U. S. House last November by a vote of 272-154.
S. 2188, like H.R. 822, would allow any person with a valid state-issued concealed firearm permit to carry a concealed handgun in any other state that issues concealed firearm permits, or that does not prohibit the carrying of concealed firearms for lawful purposes. A state’s laws governing where concealed handguns may be carried would apply within its borders.
via NRA-ILA.
Of course the anti-gun folks are ready to puke up their lunch. They cannot face the facts regarding gun ownership; more guns, less crime.
Consider:
Today 49 states either issue carry permits or otherwise authorize law-abiding people to carry firearms outside the home for self-defense. 41 states have fair “shall issue” permit systems that allow any law-abiding person to get a permit. …
These bills would have no effect on permitless carry laws, currently on the books in Arizona, Alaska, Wyoming and Vermont, that allow concealed carry without a permit. In addition, Vermont residents would be able to take advantage of S. 2188 and H.R. 822 by obtaining a permit from one of the many states that offer non-resident permits.
To think that four states allow citizens to walk around carrying handguns without any permit whatsoever. Oh the horror!!
Ha ha ha ha!
State Rep. Derrick Smith, a Democrat from Chicago, was arrested today for allegedly pocketing a $7,000 cash bribe to write an official letter of support for a day care center he believed was seeking a state grant.
The arrest came after an undercover operation launched by the FBI in December with the help of an undisclosed individual who works on Smith’s political campaigns, according to the U.S. attorney’s office.
The informant told investigators that Smith had talked about needing help with fundraising since he was appointed to the House seat last year. Smith allegedly said he wanted donations in the range of $5,000 to $7,000 and was willing to accommodate reasonable requests from donors, prosecutors said.
via Chicago Tribune.
Oh, this guy is so going down. Read the story; the U.S. attorney has this guy dead-to-rights.
But the real question is who’s going to go down with him. Mr. Smith is (was?) supported by a literal who’s who of the Chicago Democratic Party. Jesse White, the Teachers’ Union, AFL-CIO, Ald. Fioretti, etc.
What’s even more interesting is that Smith’s opponent, Tom Swiss, is a former GOP party official of some sort in Cook County. So now Democrats are forced to decide whether to vote for a guy who takes bribes or a former Republican.
Down right hilarious.
A key City Council committee Monday signed off on a $3.6 million settlement in a lawsuit filed by a man who spent nearly 10 years in prison for an attack on a woman who later said she made a mistake when she identified him as her assailant.
Robert Wilson had sought $9.9 million, a figure reflecting the nine years and nine months he spent behind bars on an attempted murder conviction before he was released in 2006, said Leslie Darling, an attorney for the city. Wilson, who alleged that his confession to the crime was coerced, was pardoned in 2008 by Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
“I think he deserves $10 million,” said Ald. Proco “Joe” Moreno, 1st. “In this case, I think approving the $3.6 million is a cost-saving measure and quite prudent.”
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If the deals are approved, Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration will have settled nine cases involving alleged police misconduct for a total of $9.4 million since September. All the alleged misconduct — ranging from improper response to medical needs to railroading innocent defendants — occurred during the 22-year tenure of former Mayor Richard Daley.
via Chicago Tribune.
Of course the 800 pound gorilla in the room is Jon Burge. The fallout from this corrupt cop’s actions have only begun to spill. And lest we forget who was the Cook County State’s Attorney while Burge was running roughshod over the South Side? Ya, none other than Da Mare himself, Richard Daley.
Our children’s children will pay for the corruption of the Daley years. And yet history will probably be kind to him. It’s a very sad state of affairs.