I have heard about all these people getting up in arms about Arizona's new law that local police, when already having an encounter with someone, can ask about people's immigration status, and arrest people who are in the US illegally. So many people are screaming that it is racist against Hispanics ( Read more... )

State Representatives John Fritchey and LaShawn Ford have come up with an idea to have Governor Quinn call the National Guard to Chicago. It's turning out to be a very bloody year so far for murders in Chicago, if I remember correctly, something like 112, and the weather hasn't even gotten warm yet. The Chicago Police Department is down close to ( Read more... )

One of the things I was most struck by watching the movie Boys Don't Cry
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So, when your city is facing a big deficit, you can't come to a contract agreement with your police department for over two years (and at the same time, you're bidding for an Olympics and lying about whether taxpayers will be on the hook for it) of course the proper and logical thing to do when you do come into some funds is to go and blow all the ( Read more... )

Hilarious!

(If the embed code doesn't work - I'm still having a terrible time with those - the video can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4v5ihLlYKQ.)

Twitter, Facebook Attack Targeted One User

Accounts of Pro-Georgian Blogger Were Target in Attack That Lead To Outage at Twitter

Isn't it nice to know that if one has 'dissenting' opinions, one is at least free to share them peacefully!

Our "good" governor, Pat Quinn, went politicking this weekend at Chicago's Apostolic Church of God.He compared raising the income tax to being the Good Samaritan, which totally doesn't make any sense, but what I want to know is how he, as a politician, can go politicking in a church like that. For all the times that there are rumblings about ( Read more... )

It's pretty sad that the new governor of IL is doing so well in his position that there are already public whisperings of missing Rod Blagojevich.

So much for "reform" in this state.

Been watching the BBC. Yes, I'm in Germany, but it's weird, because BBC world and BBC 24 are broadcasting the same thing, so basically, it's local news that I'm watching. There's a news conference with local officials on right now ( Read more... )

So I turned on the radio this morning, and of course, they are talking about Iraq, todays story being the abduction of Kim Sun-il. They played an audio excerpt of the video, where he pleads in Korean and English for his life ( Read more... )