Generally Away from Where Most People Are…
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Springfield.
He’s not helping himself given his best allies were in Southern Illinois.
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Anyone Else Waiting for Him to Break into a Rendition of Rawhide?
Just wondering.
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Pepperdine Really Should Withdraw that Law Degree
Trying to claim the 6th Amendment applies to an impeachment trial is pretty much evidence he must have cheated to get that C in Con Law.
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Marble or Bronze
Something fancy like that.
Or more to the point: Chewbacca
Frank Calabrese Threatens to Murder Federal Prosecutor Markus Funk
Outfit hit man Frank Calabrese Sr. apparently doesn’t know when to shut up.
He’s on the hook for seven murders in a racketeering case — convicted in part by his own secretly recorded words.
He was overhead threatening to kill a prosecutor, Markus Funk.
And he’s now under the kind of security lockdown at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago usually reserved for terrorists — or as his defense attorney, Joseph Lopez, has suggested, Hannibal Lecter.
Mainly odd in that I knew Markus in the late 1980s when he dated a friend of mine. His family owned Funks Seeds in McLean County and he was attending the University of Illinois at the time. Not terribly comforting him, I’m sure, but he’s making all the right enemies.
English Poet Pool
No prizes, but take a guess in comments who the English poet that Blagojevich will quote today.
I’m going with Keats. Even if it isn’t him this time, Blagojevich will get around to him eventually.
Human Shield Bingo
Blagojevich plans to hold a 2 PM press conference today so I think we can safely assume he’ll be bringing in a new crop of human shields. What I’m thinking is that instead of the overdone drinking game every time he says some cliche, we should create some bingo cards for who he brings along.
Take a sheet of paper. Divide it up with a 5 X 5 grid and place 25 different types of disadvantaged people in each box. If you can cross off 5 in a row (up, down, diagonally) you get bingo.
We have the time to figure out the best choices for anyone having a hard time so add to the following in comments:
Kidney Transplant Kid
Parapalegic Homeless Man
Flu Victim
etc.
All of these are very sad cases and to be clear, the point is the Governor is exploiting them and that’s the absurdity of it.
More Gems
The interview is like a smorgasboard. From Josh over at Progress Illinois:
And you gotta love how, towards the end, he accuses the General Assembly of doing their work in a “far away place” (i.e. Springfield).