Archive for March, 2010
Posted in March 20th, 2010
Teabaggers hurl racist and homophobic insults and get laughter from other teabaggers—- Preceding the president’s speech to a gathering of House Democrats, thousands of protesters descended around the Capitol to protest the passage of health care reform. The gathering quickly turned into abusive heckling, as members of Congress passing through Longworth House office building were […]
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Posted in March 16th, 2010
Progress Illinois As Brady broaches the topic of big-box stores, he’s likely to avoid the wage issue altogether. Indeed, while speaking to WGN Radio’s Greg Jarrett last week, he told listeners that Chicago currently “prohibit[s]” the construction of big box facilities: BRADY: Right now there is a prohibition on building Wal-Marts and Meijers and Targets […]
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Posted in March 16th, 2010
Republicans whining about self-executing rules are being hypocritical. Any veteran observer of Congress is used to the rampant hypocrisy over the use of parliamentary procedures that shifts totally from one side to the other as a majority moves to minority status, and vice versa. But I can’t recall a level of feigned indignation nearly as […]
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Posted in March 16th, 2010
You have to go over to Columbus Dispatch to see the video, but Tea Party types start heckling a guy with a sign saying he has Parkinson’s and then one guy throws dollar bills at him. Class. I’ve seen lots of misbehavior at these events by all sorts of people, but I’m always befuddled by […]
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Posted in March 16th, 2010
You should really read David Koehler’s interview in Peoria Magazines I excerpted a bit about his background in the previous post, but he has a really fascinating background and is incredibly articulate. After graduating from college in 1971, I enrolled in seminary. I first attended Payne Seminary in Wilberforce, Ohio. Payne Seminary is an African […]
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Posted in March 16th, 2010
I’m surprised there aren’t more like this: I am not a Democrat. I learn from Democratic ideals of John F. Kennedy’s discussion of “ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country,” the Peace Corps and advisors in Vietnam, FDR’s alphabet soup and New Deal of […]
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Posted in March 16th, 2010
It’s the least I can do for a regular commenter Stuart Shiffman 4. What strengths would you bring to the ticket? I am very Lincolnesque. Like Abe I was not born in Springfield. Like Abe I am not very good looking. Unlike Abe, I am not tall You can add the endorsement to […]
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Posted in March 16th, 2010
Now, with a couple serious candidates even. From David Koehler: Please tell about your background, schools attended, family life, etc. I grew up in South Dakota. My dad was a minister with the Congregational church, which is now known as the United Church of Christ. I was born in Parkston, South Dakota, just […]
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Posted in March 16th, 2010
It’s pretty safe to say the whole day is going to be NSFW “The Worldwide Leader in Goat Fucking Child Molesters” “CNN = Goat Fucking Child Molesters” “The Best Goat Fucking Childing Molesting Team on Television”
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Posted in March 16th, 2010
Today is the Breitbartocalypse so I could be raptured or something out of existence by the end of the day. Stay tuned. In other fine Breitbart news, one of the genius conspiracy theorists came up with a theory that Robert Gibbs was signaling Andy Stern by wearing a purple tie and purple wrist band: […]
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Posted in March 16th, 2010
I’m pretty damn glad they didn’t have red light cameras back when I was living in the suburbs because I would have been dead meat. Of course, I freely admit that and actually love red light cameras since they have a traffic calming effect from what I have noticed. Senator Duffy though, has a […]
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Posted in March 16th, 2010
And the wingnuts think SB 600 will solve all of their problems by having their Congressional Committee persons elected. Democrats already do that in Illinois and …. Madigan reelected unanimously as Party Chair Reminds me of….
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Posted in March 16th, 2010
Via Rich: Joan Rivers discusses Blagojevich: A year after winning “Celebrity Apprentice,” Joan Rivers went on the show as a guest this week. After spending time with this year’s controversial competitor, Rod Blagojevich, she tells me she was completely underwhelmed. “He’s an idiot,” she says of the indicted former governor of Illinois. “When […]
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Posted in March 5th, 2010
Frank Annunzio is running. One woman has submitted her transcript for her 1996 Bachelors Degree. It’s not bad, but it’s not good so I have no idea why it was submitted though I do have to wonder if this isn’t a self reinforcing way for Madigan’ s people to prove to themselves a web presence […]
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Posted in March 5th, 2010
I thought Dan Proft would be entertaining as the Republican nominee. Via Rich The Sun Times points out another stunning quote: “We were told by legal opinion that he likely was [released early],” Brady said. Asked what he meant by the term “legal opinion,” Brady said, “It means we consulted people with a law […]
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