Archive for August, 2003
Posted in August 27th, 2003
As a sometimes bike commuter, the story of the bike messenger that stalked and then attacked a guy he had a run-in with hit home a bit. Most cyclists will regale you with hours of stories about jackasses in cars that seem to be disproportionately middle aged white guys in Dodges. They cut you off, […]
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Posted in August 27th, 2003
Patrick Fitzgerald indicts a friend of George Ryan and former State Senator on Seven Counts of Perjury in the Licenses for Bribes scandal Swanson was paid $60,000 a year for three years under the Metropolitan Pier contract, yet did little to no work, U.S. Atty. Patrick Fitzgerald said at a news conference this afternoon in […]
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Posted in August 27th, 2003
Subordinates with this sort of behavior should be made to write full apologies When asked Friday morning if they wished to make a statement to the court after dropping all charges against two men who have spent most of their lives in prison, one of the two prosecutors handling the case replied: "I don’t think […]
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Posted in August 27th, 2003
While this isn’t much of a personal blog, let’s say I have some experience with twins and well, the biggest problem is that they seem to have a habit of having one distract you while the other creates a mess. John Kass, a father of twins, explains what happens when you don’t get there in […]
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Posted in August 27th, 2003
when I don’t have to, Eric Zorn did it for me: Braun is not a sure loser because she’s African American or because she’s a woman. She’s a sure loser because she was not a particularly good senator. Pretty much. My favorite is still when she secured a tax benefit for the Tribune Company and […]
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Posted in August 27th, 2003
Happy One Year Blogiversary to Me–well Yesterday. Thanks for all the hits and back to your regularly scheduled programming. Seriously, I have over 44,000 hits to this site and the previous version on Blogger and I can’t really believe it. While the numbers aren’t up there with Kos or others, for a narrowly focused blog […]
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Posted in August 27th, 2003
The Team that won’t be named here won tonight and I’ll be in attendance in enemy territory tonight, Wednesday. Send good vibes And Kos is stuck in Chicago Heh.
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Posted in August 27th, 2003
From Joyce Morrison. On the one hand, she seems to have a clear point. On the other, it is really dumb clear point. Not to mention Joyce is a welfare farmer. Subsidies produce gluts that artificially lower the prices and keeps inefficient producers growing. If you can’t efficiently compete, don’t. Either find a profitable crop […]
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Posted in August 27th, 2003
Two updates at the Political State Report Past Redistricting Attempts with the extended text from Rich Miller’s Capitol Fax. An interesting ‘insight’ into Da Speaker. DuPage County Republicans Canabilizing Each Other. Cleaned up version of the typical Illinois Circular Firing Squad Team article focusing on the battles in DuPage and what that means.
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Posted in August 26th, 2003
Jeff Trigg hits up two posts on the Senate, 1) His Impressions of the Republican Senate Candidates The only issue I take with his comments is that while Rauschenberger lacks some of the social graces one is accustomed to in politicians (essentially he doesn’t suffer fools–but assumes everyone is a fool creating a problem talking […]
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Posted in August 25th, 2003
It isn’t often that one laughs out loud at a Federal District Court judge, but leave it to the Fox News suit against Al Franken to produce such an outcome. here are hard cases and there are easy cases," said Chin. "This is an easy case. The case is wholly without merit both factually and […]
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Posted in August 25th, 2003
Marie, in comments, notes, "And I’m not going to stand for it." There’s that same misdirected righteous indignation we heard when he went after cheating cows. He’s getting lost in his own rhetoric. Well, he can stay sitting down as he is about to be overridden by the Lege. This fits with a recent post […]
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Posted in August 25th, 2003
Up at Political State Report as reported in the Capitol Fax This is a good thing. This midterm redistricting idea is bad for the country and even Illinois native George Will agrees. Two things here. One, What would George Will think about Tim Johnson representing his old home? Johnson’s personal character given Will’s view of […]
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Posted in August 22nd, 2003
DuPage County State’s Attorney Joe Birkett apparently announced a run for reelection last night at 8 PM. Maybe the Governor can campaign for him.
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Posted in August 22nd, 2003
G-Rod runs to the right of the GOP and stands by his veto of an administrative panel of police officers designed to be a watchdog over police officers perjuring themselves in capital crimes . In a stunning statement demonstrating he doesn’t grasp the issue, "In my view that means less justice, not more justice," Blagojevich […]
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