October 2003

Jeri Ryan–Ex-Wife of Jack Ryan

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The first thing that struck me about Jeri Ryan of Star Trek Voyager was that her husband shared the name of the protagonist in most Tom Clancy’s novels. The second thing was that it wasn’t like she was going to marry me anyway. The third was this guy was a conservative Republican, but hey.

Then he quit his job for a large investment firm and became a teacher in an urban Catholic High School–pretty cool.

But anyway, Kevin claims I’m slipping–he’s right see the post below. But I didn’t fall down on the job in this case,
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So Kevin, HAH! (that is meant in very good nature…)

Exhausted and Such–Cattle Call Thread

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OK, so the quality of posts has been kind of low lately. Why? I’m burnt out on politics–yes, it happens from time to time. So I’m taking a break. As of sometime Wednesday I won’t be posting barring a major issue until November 1st. But don’t go away, I’m working on some guest bloggers who should enliven the place until I find my passion again. I’ll announce more by Wednesday hopefully, but there will be light posting for the next three days. I’ll finish off one more Cattle Call so consider this the comment thread.

If the guest bloggers work out, I think you’ll find some fascinating commentary from people with similar views to mine, but also significantly different in some respects. If not, take a couple weeks off.

I’m doing this now so that I’ll be motivated again as we head into what appears to be a fascinating election cycle. Also, if there is anyone out there interested in guest blogging shoot me an e-mail. While I’ve contacted a couple folks I think will do a good job, I’m open to others. The only requirement is that you have a passion for Illinois politics and you would be comparable to me in where you stand–not the same mind you.

That’s Senator Chris Lauzen, CPA to you Pal

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Never one to let the public forget about the foibles of many of our political leaders, let’s get something straight about Chris Lauzen who was the subject of a Tom Roesser column on Saturday.

He is a flake–anyone who tries to change his name to include CPA because he was upset that a primary opponent challenged his credential deserves to be ridiculed frequently. The reason Lauzen lost to Hynes was that Lauzen is thin skinned and tried to turn it into a race about ideology–ideology that doesn’t fit in Illinois statewide.

Kathuria

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Kathuria had a rather damning article written about him by Rick Pearson over the weekend

The whole thing looks very bad, but in the interest of fairness, Greg Blankenship sends along the information

Chirinjeev Kathuria will go on John Cox’s The Progressive Conservative tomorrow at 11.30 am to rebut today’s Rick Pearson article. In the Chicago area it is 1530 AM.

Which is just after I post this…I’ll update when I hear what the substance is.

Drunk

ArchPundit October 10, 2003 No Comments

Yeah, well, the Cub game has me engrossed–tomorrow, tomorrow, I promise, tomorrow….

Busy

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Back tonight or tomorrow, lots to cover including the new cattle call with several developments in the Republican race.

For entertainment check out my Saint Louis blog–Blog Saint Louis

A couple minutes will explain why I’ve been a bit slack over here.

And Kevin–I have a response about Jeri, but I have to find the posts….I will crush you! 😉

Cubs Riot II

ArchPundit October 8, 2003 No Comments

Via Illinigirl, Normal had to control the Illinois State students after the win over the Braves.

ORMAL — A crowd of roughly 3,000 made its way around town in the vicinity of the Illinois State University campus Sunday night, following the Chicago Cubs’ decisive win over the Atlanta Braves at Turner Field in Atlanta, Ga.

Normal police were joined by officers from the McLean County Sheriff’s Department in their effort to control traffic and crowds near the intersection of Mulberry Street and Fell Avenue, where the throng started to grow at about 10:35 p.m. Parts of Fell and College avenues were blocked off by police.

Over the course of more than an hour, the raucous crowd headed for the quad, Hancock Stadium, Redbird Arena and Kingsley Junior High School, where a goal post was partially knocked down.

There were apparently no injuries late Sunday or early this morning. The crowd had thinned down to about 500 by midnight, police said.

The goal post is sort of funny–sort of not given it is vandalism, but in 1984 when the Cubs went to the playoffs both of ISU’s goalposts were torn down in the worst riot the town has ever seen. Strangely, the town made national news over a much tamer mini-riot over new rules on keg parties around that time.

Of Mice and Men

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Mice want to ban the book in Normal. Yeah, I bet that the dangerous concept of literature causes some of the ninnies in Normal to get their panties in a bunch. Boswell and the Principals had better stand up to this.

There is a dangerous concept in education called challenging one’s beliefs. I don’t buy that a couple racial epithets are behind this–I believe the parents are nervous their kids might think.

Nobel Goes to Engle and Granger

ArchPundit October 8, 2003 No Comments

I generally don’t feel qualified to judge who gets the Economics Nobel, but these two are extremely worthy for their work in econometricts.

Krugman And the Nobel?

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I believe that if Paul Krugman gets the Nobel, Donald Lushkin is going to pull a Regan and I want to be there to watch his head spin around and see him get it on with a cross.